Getting error compiling `indicatif` on Mac

[anyon17]

I tried cargo build the example provided here: https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/blob/main/examples/sentence_embeddings.rs
and got following error trace:

error[E0432]: unresolved import `console::Term`
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/indicatif-0.16.2/src/state.rs:10:5
   |
10 | use console::Term;
   |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no `Term` in the root
   |
note: found an item that was configured out
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:92:42
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92 |     user_attended, user_attended_stderr, Term, TermFamily, TermFeatures, TermTarget,
   |                                          ^^^^
note: the item is gated behind the `std` feature
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:90:7
   |
90 | #[cfg(feature = "std")]
   |       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
help: consider importing this variant instead
   |
10 - use console::Term;
10 + use crate::state::ProgressDrawTargetKind::Term;
   |

error[E0432]: unresolved imports `console::measure_text_width`, `console::Style`
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/indicatif-0.16.2/src/style.rs:1:15
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1  | use console::{measure_text_width, Style};
   |               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^ no `Style` in the root
   |               |
   |               no `measure_text_width` in the root
   |
note: found an item that was configured out
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:96:44
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96 |     colors_enabled, colors_enabled_stderr, measure_text_width, pad_str, pad_str_with,
   |                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
note: the item is gated behind the `std` feature
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:94:7
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94 | #[cfg(feature = "std")]
   |       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
note: found an item that was configured out
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:98:19
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98 |     Color, Emoji, Style, StyledObject,
   |                   ^^^^^
note: the item is gated behind the `std` feature
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:94:7
   |
94 | #[cfg(feature = "std")]
   |       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

error[E0432]: unresolved imports `console::measure_text_width`, `console::Style`
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/indicatif-0.16.2/src/utils.rs:7:15
   |
7  | use console::{measure_text_width, Style};
   |               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^ no `Style` in the root
   |               |
   |               no `measure_text_width` in the root
   |
note: found an item that was configured out
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:96:44
   |
96 |     colors_enabled, colors_enabled_stderr, measure_text_width, pad_str, pad_str_with,
   |                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
note: the item is gated behind the `std` feature
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:94:7
   |
94 | #[cfg(feature = "std")]
   |       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
note: found an item that was configured out
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:98:19
   |
98 |     Color, Emoji, Style, StyledObject,
   |                   ^^^^^
note: the item is gated behind the `std` feature
  --> /Users/bhavyabhatt/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/console-0.16.0/src/lib.rs:94:7
   |
94 | #[cfg(feature = "std")]
   |       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `indicatif` (lib) due to 3 previous errors
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

[trueleo]

I was getting the same issue, adding this to your cargo toml will fix it.

console = { version = "0.16", features = ["std"] }

If you run cargo tree -i console, you will see console is an indirect dependency to this project. It's worth fixing this along the dependency tree

console v0.16.0
|-- indicatif v0.16.2
|   `-- cached-path v0.6.2
|       `-- rust-bert v0.23.0

[manglemix]

I also have this issue but the fix does work. Why is console a dependency?

[4F2E4A2E]

Hey! Just ran into this same issue today (December 2025) with rust-bert 0.23.0.

I can confirm the workaround still works, but wanted to share an alternative solution that might be more future-proof:

[dependencies]
indicatif = "0.17"

Then run:

cargo update -p indicatif@0.16.2

This bumps the old indicatif 0.16.2 to a newer version that doesn't have the console compatibility issues. Build succeeds cleanly after that.
The root cause is the dependency chain: rust-bert → cached-path 0.6.2 → indicatif 0.16.2 → console 0.16.x (missing std feature).

Would be great if cached-path could be updated to use a newer indicatif version to avoid this workaround. In the meantime, either the console = { version = "0.16", features = ["std"] } fix or the indicatif bump works fine.

Thanks for the great library btw! 🙌