Python Extras on OSX

[4x4notfound]

I've been wrestling with installing the txtai optional extras on OSX. Conda has worked so far to install the base package but only pip support installing extras.

The issue seems to be related to faiss-cpu when installing extras with pip. I've installed faiss using both conda and nix-shell with no success.

How can I get unstuck?

pip 25.1.1 
Python 3.11.12
conda 23.3.1
SWIG Version 4.3.0
osx 13.2.1

[davidmezzetti]

Hello. Thank you for submitting this issue and I'm sorry to hear you're running into these issues.

Did you consider just using pip (or uv) for the full install with a virtual environment?

[4x4notfound]

yes I did. I switched to using conda from pip because of the faiss install issues. Then I returned to using pip for the optional dependencies but getting the original pip wheel build issues.

[davidmezzetti]

Ok. I'm not quite sure what the issue is. The GitHub actions build installs all extras for MacOS. There is a pre-built faiss-cpu wheel on GitHub for macs.