Error installing CrossHair with Poetry under macOS 14.4.1 in Python 3.13

[iusedmyimagination]

Our project's pyproject.toml file has:

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
[...]
crosshair-tool = "^0.0.77"
[...]

When installing with Poetry, we get the following error:

% poetry install --with dev
Installing dependencies from lock file

Package operations: 81 installs, 14 updates, 0 removals
[...]
  - Installing crosshair-tool (0.0.77): Failed

  ChefBuildError

  Backend subprocess exited when trying to invoke build_wheel

  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build/lib.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
  copying crosshair/pure_importer.py -> build/lib.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
[...]
  copying crosshair/_mark_stacks.h -> build/lib.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
  running build_ext
  building '_crosshair_tracers' extension
  creating build/temp.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
  clang -fno-strict-overflow -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -DNDEBUG -O2 -Wall -fPIC -O2 -isystem /Users/renaud/miniforge3/envs/codeflash313/include -arch arm64 -fPIC -O2 -isystem /Users/renaud/miniforge3/envs/codeflash313/include -arch arm64 -I/var/folders/wg/xqtxrnxj7273nzvy7ncc2bj00000gn/T/tmp36pgaom_/.venv/include -I/Users/renaud/miniforge3/envs/codeflash313/include/python3.13 -c crosshair/_tracers.c -o build/temp.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair/_tracers.o
  In file included from crosshair/_tracers.c:22:
  crosshair/_mark_stacks.h:549:6: error: use of undeclared identifier 'FORMAT_VALUE'
      [FORMAT_VALUE] = 1,
       ^
  crosshair/_tracers.c:314:10: warning: variable 'ran_handler' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
      BOOL ran_handler = FALSE;
           ^
  crosshair/_tracers.c:960:19: warning: unused variable 'code' [-Wunused-variable]
      PyCodeObject *code;
                    ^
  2 warnings and 1 error generated.
  error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1

  at ~/miniforge3/envs/codeflash313/lib/python3.13/site-packages/poetry/installation/chef.py:164 in _prepare
      160│ 
      161│                 error = ChefBuildError("\n\n".join(message_parts))
      162│ 
      163│             if error is not None:
    → 164│                 raise error from None
      165│ 
      166│             return path
      167│ 
      168│     def _prepare_sdist(self, archive: Path, destination: Path | None = None) -> Path:

Note: This error originates from the build backend, and is likely not a problem with poetry but with crosshair-tool (0.0.77) not supporting PEP 517 builds. You can verify this by running 'pip wheel --no-cache-dir --use-pep517 "crosshair-tool (==0.0.77)"'.
[...]

Running the specified command gives the same error:

% pip wheel --no-cache-dir --use-pep517 "crosshair-tool (==0.0.77)"
Collecting crosshair-tool==0.0.77
  Downloading crosshair-tool-0.0.77.tar.gz (448 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting packaging (from crosshair-tool==0.0.77)
[...]
Building wheels for collected packages: crosshair-tool
  Building wheel for crosshair-tool (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for crosshair-tool (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [201 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build/lib.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
      copying crosshair/pure_importer.py -> build/lib.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
[...]
      copying crosshair/_mark_stacks.h -> build/lib.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
      running build_ext
      building '_crosshair_tracers' extension
      creating build/temp.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair
      clang -fno-strict-overflow -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -DNDEBUG -O2 -Wall -fPIC -O2 -isystem /Users/renaud/miniforge3/envs/codeflash313/include -arch arm64 -fPIC -O2 -isystem /Users/renaud/miniforge3/envs/codeflash313/include -arch arm64 -I/Users/renaud/miniforge3/envs/codeflash313/include/python3.13 -c crosshair/_tracers.c -o build/temp.macosx-11.0-arm64-cpython-313/crosshair/_tracers.o
      In file included from crosshair/_tracers.c:22:
      crosshair/_mark_stacks.h:549:6: error: use of undeclared identifier 'FORMAT_VALUE'
          [FORMAT_VALUE] = 1,
           ^
      crosshair/_tracers.c:314:10: warning: variable 'ran_handler' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
          BOOL ran_handler = FALSE;
               ^
      crosshair/_tracers.c:960:19: warning: unused variable 'code' [-Wunused-variable]
          PyCodeObject *code;
                        ^
      2 warnings and 1 error generated.
      error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for crosshair-tool
Failed to build crosshair-tool
ERROR: Failed to build one or more wheels

We get the same error in a similar GitHub Action, in Ubuntu.

[iusedmyimagination]

Same issue with pip install. No problem in Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 or 3.12.

[pschanely]

Thank you for the report!

I think the latest version I've attempted was 3.13rc2, and indeed, I can confirm that the final 3.13 release doesn't build. The build is easy enough to get functional, but looks like I've got a few test failures that I should investigate too. I'll report back in a day or two!

[pschanely]

@iusedmyimagination OK, 0.0.78 should install on 3.13 for you. (in fact, you probably should even get a binary wheel and not have to build anything)

i'll optimistically close this, but let me know how it goes either way!

[iusedmyimagination]

Thanks @pschanely, it installed with the binary wheel without any issues. Thank you for the quick turnaround and a wonderful tool!