Unable to install crewai in venv with python 3.12 facing ERROR: Failed building wheel for chroma-hnswlib

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Using cached wcwidth-0.2.13-py2.py3-none-any.whl (34 kB)
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Building wheels for collected packages: chroma-hnswlib
Building wheel for chroma-hnswlib (pyproject.toml) … error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for chroma-hnswlib (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [9 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_ext
building ‘hnswlib’ extension
creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-312\Release\python_bindings
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.36.32532\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe” /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-eb5gis7d\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pybind11\include -IC:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-eb5gis7d\overlay\Lib\site-packages\numpy_core\include -I./hnswlib/ -IC:\Users\xxxx\Documents\AI_AGENTS\venv\include “-IC:\Program Files\Python312\include” “-IC:\Program Files\Python312\Include” “-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.36.32532\include” “-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include” /EHsc /Tp./python_bindings/bindings.cpp /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-cpython-312\Release\python_bindings\bindings.obj /EHsc /openmp /O2 /DVERSION_INFO=\"0.7.6\"
bindings.cpp
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.36.32532\include\yvals.h(17): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘crtdbg.h’: No such file or directory
error: command ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.36.32532\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe’ failed with exit code 2
[end of output]

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

Note: I have tried installing visual studio installer 22 also try with :
pip install crewai --pre

pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel

pip cache purge

pip install crewai --no-build-isolation

Also i tried to install chromadb, hnslib directly too but unable to fix. Please suggest if anybody faced this and how this resolved. Early response will be highly appreciated.

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How are you installing crewai?

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I am following official document for installation in venv with python version 3.12 tried with

  • pip install ‘crewai[tools]’
  • pip install crewai crewai-tools
    but facing above error
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I had the same issue with a version newer than 3.11. With 3.11 I didn’t face the problem anymore.

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I got the issue too. this worked for me: HNSWLIB_NO_NATIVE=1 uv pip install crewai

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Thanks, Stefan_weber. I faced the same issues, so I uninstalled Python 3.12 and installed 3.11, and it worked.