Can't install on MacOS Ventura Intel x86 Python 3.11

[tak2hu]

I already installed mecab and unidic-lite

Collecting fugashi
  Using cached fugashi-1.2.1.tar.gz (337 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [9 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/private/var/folders/zj/qrp2fd392hz9t9f8kpnbkr600000gn/T/pip-install-n9jm53hb/fugashi_08463b6ceb92463991c8021884dcd2d4/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
          output, data_files = check_libmecab()
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/zj/qrp2fd392hz9t9f8kpnbkr600000gn/T/pip-install-n9jm53hb/fugashi_08463b6ceb92463991c8021884dcd2d4/fugashi_util.py", line 58, in check_libmecab
          raise RuntimeError("Could not configure working env. Have you installed MeCab?")
      RuntimeError: Could not configure working env. Have you installed MeCab?
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[polm]

This can happen if mecab-config is not in your PATH. This doesn't seem to usually be an issue on OSX, but maybe you installed to a different location or something? How did you install MeCab?

[tak2hu]

I installed mecab through pip install mecab-python3 (also unidic_lite too) but there's no mecab-config, there's only mecab-py and mecab-py-info in PATH.

I then tried tried using micromamba (anaconda) with python 3.9 and had no problem because it downloaded .whls instead of building.

[polm]

I installed mecab through pip install mecab-python3 (also unidic_lite too) but there's no mecab-config, there's only mecab-py and mecab-py-info in PATH.

To install MeCab from source, as you were doing here, you need to install the original MeCab C++ program/library, not any Python package. fugashi cannot use the MeCab included in mecab-python3. I believe the usual way to install MeCab from source is via brew, as described here.

It sounds like this is resolved now since you were able to use x86 wheels?

[tak2hu]

I opened this issue because there was no osx x86 py3.11 wheels and I didn’t know how to build this and mecab from source, now I know. Thanks!

[polm]

Got it, thanks for the clarification, and glad you figured it out!