Could not build wheels for pycuda

Question

Receiving an error during pip pycuda installation on ubuntu as follows:

command '/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit code 1
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pycuda
Failed to build pycuda
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pycuda, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Pucker

edit and show the full text of the error message, please. – Tarkington

Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. – Lucero

Answer 1

For me this worked:

export CPATH=$CPATH:/usr/local/cuda-11.8/targets/x86_64-linux/include
export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/cuda-11.8/targets/x86_64-linux/lib
pip install pycuda

Mohandas

any solution for windows 11? – Reserved

Answer 2

I solved the problem by doing:

For Python 2.x use:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

For Python 2.7 use:

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

For Python 3.x use:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

or for a specific version of Python 3, replace x with the minor version in

sudo apt-get install python3.x-dev

Pucker

Answer 3

sudo apt-get install python3.x-dev also works for pycuda fatal error: pyconfig.h case.

Many thanks to @user19594699

John

Answer 4

Scroll up to see the output of the subprocess where the error originated. And make sure you have enough space in your root partition (that has been the cause too many times for me!)

Vladamar