Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully

[Nickfu0911]

Hi. I've compiled petsc successfully and passed the make check. And I've followed the procedures on the firedrake website to set the venv-firedrake and environment variables. However, when running pip install firedrake, the following error appeared:

Installing build dependencies ... done

Getting requirements to build wheel ... error

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.

│ exit code: 1

╰─> [27 lines of output]

  Traceback (most recent call last):

    File "/Users/nf419/venv-firedrake/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>

      main()

      ~~~~^^

    File "/Users/nf419/venv-firedrake/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main

      json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])

                               ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    File "/Users/nf419/venv-firedrake/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel

      return hook(config_settings)

    File "/private/var/folders/92/_s0swm556djbnprx_zvg2bxh0000gp/T/pip-build-env-zyk6qk0c/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 331, in get_requires_for_build_wheel

      return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])

             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    File "/private/var/folders/92/_s0swm556djbnprx_zvg2bxh0000gp/T/pip-build-env-zyk6qk0c/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 301, in _get_build_requires

      self.run_setup()

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

    File "/private/var/folders/92/_s0swm556djbnprx_zvg2bxh0000gp/T/pip-build-env-zyk6qk0c/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup

      exec(code, locals())

      ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    File "<string>", line 286, in <module>

    File "<string>", line 275, in make_firedrake_check_package

    File [/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.13.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/shutil.py](mailto:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.13.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/shutil.py), line 428, in copy

      copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)

      ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    File [/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.13.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/shutil.py](mailto:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.13.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/shutil.py), line 260, in copyfile

      with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:

           ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^

  FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Makefile'

  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.

│ exit code: 1

╰─> See above for output.

May I ask what could be the possible reason for this? Thank you very much in advance for your help!

[connorjward]

This has already been asked. Please follow the instructions in #4273. I will do a proper fix today.

[Nickfu0911]

Thanks a lot, it works!
Also, may I ask where can I find more information on using the complex version of Firedrake? I searched for this on the website and the only thing I find was this:

Because I'm trying to solve the frequency-domain wave equation (e.g. something like this:

so I think I might need to use the complex mode in Firedrake.
Thank you very much in advance.

[connorjward]

To install Firedrake (really PETSc) in complex mode you need to pass --arch complex to firedrake-configure (described here).

If you have more maths-y questions I'd recommend making a new discussion or asking on our Slack.