Failed building wheel for pybullet

[FarnazAdib]

I am trying to install pybullet in a virtual environment and it fails. I use VS code on a Mac with Sequoia 15.4.1.

I have the latest version of xcode installed on my Mac and I have tried all options below

pip install pybullet
pip3 install pybullet
pip install --only-binary :all: pybullet
pip install pybullet --use-pep517 --no-build-isolation

None of them works and I get this error

  In file included from In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/btBulletFile.cppExtras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bDNA.cpp::1617:
  :
  In file included from In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/btBulletFile.hExtras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bDNA.h::1919:
  In file included from In file included from :
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bChunk.cppExtras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bCommon.h::2118:
  :
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.hIn file included from :Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bFile.h38::1910:
  :In file included from  Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bCommon.hfatal error: In file included from 'new' file not found
  Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bFile.hExtras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bFile.cpp::1915:
  :
  In file included from In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bCommon.hExtras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bFile.h::2119:
  :
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.hIn file included from :Extras/Serialize/BulletFileLoader/bCommon.h38::2110:
  :src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not found   :21:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:3838 | :
  fatal error: 'new' file not found
  #   38 | include 10<:n efatal error: w'new' file not found>
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  ew>  //for/for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
   placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  error: command '/usr/bin/clang++' failed with exit code 1
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  Extras/VHACD/src/VHACD.cpp:18:10: fatal error: 'algorithm' file not found
     18 | #include <algorithm>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
  Extras/VHACD/test/src/main_vhacd.cpp:17:10: fatal error: 'algorithm' file not found
     17 | #include <algorithm>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
  1 error generated.
  In file included from Extras/VHACD/src/vhacdVolume.cpp:16:
  In file included from src/LinearMath/btConvexHullComputer.h:19:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not foundIn file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btWorldImporter.cpp:16:
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btWorldImporter.h:21:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not found
     38 | #include <new>  //for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  
     38 | #include <new>  //for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btBulletWorldImporter.cpp:16:
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btBulletWorldImporter.h:19:
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btWorldImporter.h:21:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not found
     38 | #include <new>  //for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  In file included from Extras/VHACD/src/vhacdMesh.cpp:17:
  In file included from src/LinearMath/btConvexHullComputer.h:19:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not found
     38 | #include <new>  //for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btMultiBodyWorldImporter.cpp:1:
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btMultiBodyWorldImporter.h:4:
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btBulletWorldImporter.h:19:
  In file included from Extras/Serialize/BulletWorldImporter/btWorldImporter.h:21:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not found
     38 | #include <new>  //for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  In file included from examples/ExampleBrowser/CollisionShape2TriangleMesh.cpp:2:
  In file included from examples/ExampleBrowser/CollisionShape2TriangleMesh.h:4:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not found
     38 | #include <new>  //for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  1 error generated.
  In file included from In file included from Extras/VHACD/src/vhacdManifoldMesh.cppExtras/VHACD/src/vhacdICHull.cpp:15:
  In file included from Extras/VHACD/inc/vhacdICHull.h:18:
  In file included from Extras/VHACD/inc/vhacdManifoldMesh.h:20:
  Extras/VHACD/inc/vhacdVector.h:18:10: fatal error: 'iostream' file not found
     18 | #include <iostream>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~
  :15:
  In file included from Extras/VHACD/inc/vhacdManifoldMesh.h:20:
  Extras/VHACD/inc/vhacdVector.h:18:10: fatal error: 'iostream' file not found
     18 | #include <iostream>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  In file included from examples/ExampleBrowser/GL_ShapeDrawer.cpp:22:
  In file included from examples/ExampleBrowser/GL_ShapeDrawer.h:22:
  src/LinearMath/btAlignedObjectArray.h:38:10: fatal error: 'new' file not found
     38 | #include <new>  //for placement new
        |          ^~~~~
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  1 error generated.
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pybullet
Running setup.py clean for pybullet
Failed to build pybullet
ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (pybullet)

[AnnabellaMacaluso]

Same issue on Sequoia 15.3.1

[arcymonka]

I had the same issue on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1. What worked for me was switching to Conda and installing pybullet from the conda-forge channel, which provides precompiled binaries and avoids the build problems:

conda create -n pybullet-env -c conda-forge python=3.11 pybullet
conda activate pybullet-env

This solved the problem completely on my M2 Mac. Hope this helps!

[Muxi-Qiao]

I had the same issue on macOS Sequoia 15.5 with M4 Apple Silicon and I used python==3.10.15. I used conda-forge channel to install it. Although it worked, it also changed my python version to 3.10.13.

[AlexisMotet]

had a similar problem because the clang in my path was too new, I ran "CC=/usr/bin/clang CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ pip install pybullet" and it worked

[gonzalocasas]

Same here. I would ideally like to be able to install on the Python interpreter that ships with Rhino (CPython 3.9). Also Mac on arm64, Sequoia 15.3.2

[oulianov]

Hey! This is an issue that multiple people have reported to me.

This issue might be caused by an outdated zlib version: #4607
Multiple Mac Sillicon have trouble compiling pybullet.

Here is a workaround to compile pybullet from source found by an user named Indeed:

Could we bump the zlib required version to avoid this issue?

[HernanTrullo]

Hola, para windows 10. descargue lo que decia la pagina del win-tool-for vscode y funcionó.

[rafaelcaricio]

Indeed I can compile and install PyBullet on my M1, but it keeps spinning the mouse. Sounds like a busy loop somewhere.

[entangeled]

I had the same issue on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1. What worked for me was switching to Conda and installing pybullet from the conda-forge channel, which provides precompiled binaries and avoids the build problems:

conda create -n pybullet-env -c conda-forge python=3.11 pybullet
conda activate pybullet-env

This solved the problem completely on my M2 Mac. Hope this helps!

Hi ! For this - I tried to hack the conda. so that I can use pybullet in in verv. but it did not let me - do you know how I can fix it - or how I can get pybullet in verv. . the code you sent did not work on mine

[mbUSC]

+1
Same issue here. I don't know what to do to fix this :(