Spacy 3 fails on Mac M1 - zsh: illegal hardware instruction

[rtlawton]

How to reproduce the behaviour

I have just upgraded to spacy 3.1.3, using "pip install -U spacy"
System reported "Successfully installed spacy-3.1.3"
but any command line use of spacy seems to generate "zsh: illegal hardware instruction."
Error occurs on:
"python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm-3.1.0 "or
"python -m spacy info --markdown"

Your Environment

• Operating System: Mac OS Big Sur 11.6
• Python Version Used: 3.9.6
• spaCy Version Used: 3.1.0
• Environment Information: Conda environment

[adrianeboyd]

It sounds like you've gotten package installs that are mixed between native (arm64) and emulation (x86_64) versions, probably due to mixing pip and conda.

It's probably easiest to keep things straight if you install spacy solely through conda: conda install -c conda-forge spacy. It might be easiest to start in a new conda venv to be sure you're getting a clean installation of everything.

If you're not already, I'd recommend using the mac arm64 miniforge conda installer: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge#miniforge3. There are mac arm64 packages for spacy and all its dependencies through the conda-forge channel.

To make things a lot faster on an M1, also install the new thinc-apple-ops package. There's only a pip package at this point, let's see, I think if you install it carefully with python -m pip in your venv it should end up compiling it the right way (you will need Xcode installed to install it):

python -m pip install thinc-apple-ops

[isobarbaric]

I tried this but I still keep getting an error when I try to run the following command:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

I swear I've been trying to get spacy to work for days now...

[polm]

Hello. Rather than posting in multiple old threads, could you please open a new discussion and:

1. show the actual error output you're getting
2. show the output of spacy info
3. show the output of this command: python -c 'import platform; print(platform.platform())'

I'm sorry you're having trouble with this, but with no information except "it doesn't work" it's hard to help you.