Unable to install PyAudio on M1 Mac [PortAudio already installed] - pip

Question

I have visited many forums, tried diffrent methods like brew, pip, port and many more but still am facing the same error.
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src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:10: fatal error: 'portaudio.h' file not found
#include "portaudio.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

These steps worked on M1 Pro chips
Install portaudio
brew install portaudio
Link portaudio
brew link portaudio
Copy the path where portaudio was installed (use it in the next step)
brew --prefix portaudio
Create .pydistutils.cfg in your home directory
sudo nano $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg
then paste the following
[build_ext]
include_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 3>/include/
library_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 3>/lib/
Install pyaudio
pip install pyaudio
or
pip3 install pyaudio

Answer 2

For me it was:
brew install portaudio
python -m pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.7.0/include' --global-option='-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.7.0/lib' pyaudio

Answer 3

This Solution is tested on M1 Macs[Please do check with other].
After the installation of HomeBrew on your system, perform the installation of PortAudio. Next follow the steps mentioned below:
Use the command to install PortAudio
sudo brew install portaudio
After successful installation of PortAudio, enter the following command.
sudo nano $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg
Next, enter the following lines in the opened window
[build_ext]
include_dirs=/Users/<enter-your-system-username>/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.20140130/include/
include_dirs=/Users/<enter-your-system-username>/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.20140130/lib/
Note: PortAudio location may be different for you and also don't forget to replace your PC username.
Finally run the command
pip install pyaudio
or
pip3 install pyaudio

Answer 4

The main challenge we're encountering here is that pyaudio doesn't know where to find the portaudio libraries since, according to the source, it only looks in these locations for darwin platform installations:
include_dirs += ['/usr/local/include', '/usr/include']
external_libraries_path += ['/usr/local/lib', '/usr/lib']
This won't do if you're using a homebrew installation of portaudio, particularly so with Apple Silicon since there isn't a pre-built wheel in PyPi. This means setuptools/pip will need to build the package from source.
There are a few ways of configuring setuptools to use additional paths, including passing arguments, using a .pydistutils.cfg file, among others, but the second option worked for me given I'm installing pyaudio to a few Python environments.
Building off of some of the answers above, you can copy the following below to install pyaudio in one go.
# Install portaudio, will print list of paths where it's been installed if already done
brew list portaudio || brew install portaudio
# Link portaudio, will print a warning if already linked
brew link portaudio
# Create a pydistutils config file with the portaudio lib paths set correctly (no copying/pasting paths required)
cat <<EOF >> .pydistutils.cfg
[build_ext]
include_dirs=`brew --prefix portaudio`/include/
library_dirs=`brew --prefix portaudio`/lib/
EOF
# install (build) package with pip
python -m pip install pyaudio
All we're doing is telling setuptools to also look for C/C++ headers where portaudio has been installed by homebrew.

Answer 5

vkshah has an error in his second line. It should ready library_dirs instead of include_dirs:
include_dirs=/Users/<enter-your-system-username>/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.20140130/include/
library_dirs=/Users/<enter-your-system-username>/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.20140130/lib/```

Answer 6

For me, I am running Big Sur on an M1 Mac. I followed all the instructions mentioned in other threads to:
install portaudio
arch -arm64 brew install portaudio
start a venv
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
install pyaudio
arch -arm64 pip install --no-cache-dir --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/opt/homebrew/include' --global-option='-L/opt/homebrew/lib' pyaudio==0.2.11
TIP #1
If you see error on portaudio.h file not found, the solution is specifying the pyaudio version at the end. Because it kept trying to install version '0.2.12' which failed. I specify the version of pyaudio to '0.2.11' (see above).
TIP #2
After successfully installing pyaudio, you may see error PyAudio C module _portaudio, that is due to pip built it(_portaudio.cpython-36m-darwin.so) in x86_64 architecture. It's not compatible with arm64 portaudio, in this case, make sure to include arch -arm64 in front of pip to build the correct binary.
TIP #3
Use an older version of python, I personally used version 3.6.
Oh, and make sure the single quote is actually ' if you copied the command from a text editor.
Hope this helps!

Answer 7

first you need to download portaudio using homebrew
brew install portaudio
Then try to install pyaudio directly
pip install pyaudio
if you are getting error while installing follow below step
Or
if you are facing any error mentioned bellow you can follow these steps
error 1
option 'include_dirs' in section 'build_ext' already exists
error 2
Could not build wheels for pyaudio, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
error 3
#include "portaudio.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1
solution start here
after installing homebrew you have to link it
brew link portaudio
in some cases it will say that it has been already linked then simply ignore
we need path of portaudio where it is exactly installed
brew --prefix portaudio
it will gives you path of portaudio
then you have to check if pydistutils.cfg file exists or not
sudo cat $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg
if file exists then it will open else create it will below command
sudo cat $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg
so in these file we have to define proper path here
[build_ext]
include_dirs=/--PATH--/include/
library_dirs=/--PATH--/lib/
you can get that path by running below command
brew --prefix portaudio
if that path is not working then try below path
[build_ext]
include_dirs=/Users/<username>/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.20140130/include/
library_dirs=/Users/<username>/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.20140130/lib/

Answer 8

If you use mac os
Install Homebrew (insert link into the terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" )
Insert command into the terminal:
brew install portaudio
Insert command into the terminal:
pip install pyaudio
p.s. sometimes you need upgrade your pip installer
These actions solved my problem (mac os Mojave 10.14.4)