I wanted to use spacy to work on a project, but it cannot be installed using pip and is showing the following error message in command prompt pip install spacy Collecting spacy Using cached spacy-3.8.2.tar.gz (1.3 MB) Installing build dependencies ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [103 lines of output] Ignoring numpy: markers 'python_version < "3.9"' don't match your environment Collecting setuptools Using cached setuptools-76.0.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.7 kB) Collecting cython<3.0,>=0.25 Using cached Cython-0.29.37-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.1 kB) Collecting cymem<2.1.0,>=2.0.2 Using cached cymem-2.0.11-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (8.8 kB) Collecting preshed<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 Using cached preshed-3.0.9.tar.gz (14 kB) Installing build dependencies: started Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done' Getting requirements to build wheel: started Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done' Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done' Collecting murmurhash<1.1.0,>=0.28.0 Using cached murmurhash-1.0.12-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.2 kB) Collecting thinc<8.4.0,>=8.3.0 Using cached thinc-8.3.2.tar.gz (193 kB) Installing build dependencies: started Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'error' error: subprocess-exited-with-error pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully. exit code: 1 [65 lines of output] Ignoring numpy: markers 'python_version < "3.9"' don't match your environment Collecting setuptools Using cached setuptools-76.0.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.7 kB) Collecting cython<3.0,>=0.25 Using cached Cython-0.29.37-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.1 kB) Collecting murmurhash<1.1.0,>=1.0.2 Using cached murmurhash-1.0.12-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.2 kB) Collecting cymem<2.1.0,>=2.0.2 Using cached cymem-2.0.11-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (8.8 kB) Collecting preshed<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 Using cached preshed-3.0.9.tar.gz (14 kB) Installing build dependencies: started Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done' Getting requirements to build wheel: started Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done' Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done' Collecting blis<1.1.0,>=1.0.0 Using cached blis-1.0.2-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (7.8 kB) Collecting numpy<2.1.0,>=2.0.0 Using cached numpy-2.0.2.tar.gz (18.9 MB) Installing build dependencies: started Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done' Getting requirements to build wheel: started Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done' Installing backend dependencies: started Installing backend dependencies: finished with status 'done' Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error' error: subprocess-exited-with-error Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully. exit code: 1 [19 lines of output] + C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\python.exe C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bpp4n0ch\numpy_744bbb085194411e9f392421c1dd5e5e\vendored-meson\meson\meson.py setup C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bpp4n0ch\numpy_744bbb085194411e9f392421c1dd5e5e C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bpp4n0ch\numpy_744bbb085194411e9f392421c1dd5e5e\.mesonpy-8ls7xc0w -Dbuildtype=release -Db_ndebug=if-release -Db_vscrt=md --native-file=C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bpp4n0ch\numpy_744bbb085194411e9f392421c1dd5e5e\.mesonpy-8ls7xc0w\meson-python-native-file.ini The Meson build system Version: 1.4.99 Source dir: C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bpp4n0ch\numpy_744bbb085194411e9f392421c1dd5e5e Build dir: C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bpp4n0ch\numpy_744bbb085194411e9f392421c1dd5e5e\.mesonpy-8ls7xc0w Build type: native build Project name: NumPy Project version: 2.0.2 C compiler for the host machine: gcc (gcc 6.3.0 "gcc (MinGW.org GCC-6.3.0-1) 6.3.0") C linker for the host machine: gcc ld.bfd 2.28 C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 6.3.0 "c++ (MinGW.org GCC-6.3.0-1) 6.3.0") C++ linker for the host machine: c++ ld.bfd 2.28 Cython compiler for the host machine: cython (cython 3.0.12) Host machine cpu family: x86 Host machine cpu: x86 ..\meson.build:28:4: ERROR: Problem encountered: NumPy requires GCC >= 8.4 A full log can be found at C:\Users\ronal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bpp4n0ch\numpy_744bbb085194411e9f392421c1dd5e5e\.mesonpy-8ls7xc0w\meson-logs\meson-log.txt [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: metadata-generation-failed Encountered error while generating package metadata. See above for output. note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip. hint: See above for details. [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: subprocess-exited-with-error pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully. exit code: 1 See above for output. note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: subprocess-exited-with-error × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> See above for output. note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. I have been trying to install spacy module to import into a python backend project. Spacy was not even being installed using pip install spacy I am not able to import spacy as it wont be installed using pip due to the problem above as in the terminal response please someone help me fix this issue Continue reading...
