Error on pip install pikepdf on Debian 9 - QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper.hh: No such file or directory

[Lucas-C]

There are the steps I followed:

$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.13 (stretch)
Release:        9.13
Codename:       stretch
$ apt install -y libxml2-dev libxslt-dev qpdf libqpdf-dev
$ apt-get -s install libqpdf-dev qpdf
libqpdf-dev is already the newest version (6.0.0-2).
qpdf is already the newest version (6.0.0-2).
$ pip3 --version
pip 20.2.4 from /home/lucas/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)
$ pip3 install pikepdf
Collecting pikepdf
  Using cached pikepdf-1.19.3.tar.gz (2.4 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: pikepdf
  Building wheel for pikepdf (PEP 517) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /usr/local/bin/python3.10 /home/lucas/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py build_wheel /tmp/tmpqol28chs
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-ixcnvvbx/pikepdf
  Complete output (37 lines):
...
  gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -g -Og -Wall -fPIC -DVERSION_INFO="1.19.3" -I/tmp/pip-build-env-o0uq_xyp/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pybind11/include -I/usr/local/include/python3.10d -c src/qpdf/annotation.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.10-pydebug/src/qpdf/annotation.o -std=c++14 -fvisibility=hidden
  src/qpdf/annotation.cpp:16:46: fatal error: qpdf/QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper.hh: No such file or directory
   #include <qpdf/QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper.hh>
                                                ^
  compilation terminated.
  error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pikepdf
Failed to build pikepdf
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pikepdf which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

[Lucas-C]

QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper.hh is indeed missing on my system, despite having installed the libqpdf-dev 6.0.0-2 package:

$ dpkg -L libqpdf-dev | grep 'include/qpdf/'
/usr/include/qpdf/Constants.h
/usr/include/qpdf/DLL.h
/usr/include/qpdf/Types.h
/usr/include/qpdf/qpdf-c.h
/usr/include/qpdf/Buffer.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/BufferInputSource.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/FileInputSource.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/InputSource.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/Pipeline.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/Pl_Buffer.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/Pl_Concatenate.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/Pl_Count.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/Pl_Discard.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/Pl_Flate.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/Pl_StdioFile.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/PointerHolder.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDFExc.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDFObjGen.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDFObject.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDFTokenizer.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDFWriter.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QPDFXRefEntry.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QTC.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/QUtil.hh
/usr/include/qpdf/RandomDataProvider.hh

[Lucas-C]

Seems like QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper.hh did not existed before QPDF 8.1.0: qpdf/qpdf@0b05111

I should have RTFM...

pikepdf requires: libqpdf 10.0.3 or higher from the QPDF project.

[jbarlow83]

Run pip3 install wheel and then pip3 install pikepdf again.

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[Lucas-C]

I did that and also installed libqpdf-dev 10.0.3-1 from Debian unstable channel.
The error has changed, but there is still an issue :

...
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/home/lucas/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 280, in <module>
      main()
    File "/home/lucas/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 263, in main
      json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
    File "/home/lucas/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 204, in build_wheel
      return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-0w3wltvt/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 216, in build_wheel
      return self._build_with_temp_dir(['bdist_wheel'], '.whl',
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-0w3wltvt/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 202, in _build_with_temp_dir
      self.run_setup()
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-0w3wltvt/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 145, in run_setup
      exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
    File "setup.py", line 157, in <module>
      setup(
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-0w3wltvt/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 153, in setup
      return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
      dist.run_commands()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
      self.run_command(cmd)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-0w3wltvt/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 328, in run
      impl_tag, abi_tag, plat_tag = self.get_tag()
    File "/tmp/pip-build-env-0w3wltvt/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 278, in get_tag
      assert tag in supported_tags, "would build wheel with unsupported tag {}".format(tag)
  AssertionError: would build wheel with unsupported tag ('cp310', 'cp310d', 'linux_x86_64')
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pikepdf

[Lucas-C]

This new error is not related to pikepdf: pypa/wheel#354

Hence I'm closing this