Unable to install pyheif on docker container with Ubuntu 18.04 on M1 Mac

[linaran]

Hi,

I'm trying to install pyheif over pip on a docker container running Ubuntu 18.04. The docker is hosted on M1 Mac which means the CPU architecture is aarch64/armv8 which apparently isn't compatible with the armv7l or at least pip won't let me use that wheel.

This is effectively Ubuntu 18.04 on armv8. pip probably attempts to build a wheel for my platform but this fails with the following error, indicating incompatible libraries:

I also tried your instructions to build the package from the source but it produced the same error. In the end, I managed to get the thing installed by running your dockerfile steps that manually build the correct versions of the dependencies.

Could we have a wheel for aarch64/armv8?

[linaran]

I found a workaround using the dockerfile in your repo to build the incompatible libraries inside my container but it's a bit clumsy.

For reference these are the lines I used:

# libde265
RUN set -ex \
    && cd /build-deps \
    && LIBDE265_VERSION="1.0.5" \
    && wget https://github.com/strukturag/libde265/releases/download/v${LIBDE265_VERSION}/libde265-${LIBDE265_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && tar xvf libde265-${LIBDE265_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && cd libde265-${LIBDE265_VERSION} \
    && ./autogen.sh \
    && ./configure --prefix /usr \
    && make -j4 \
    && make install \
    && ldconfig

# libheif
RUN set -ex \
    && cd /build-deps \
    && LIBHEIF_VERSION="1.7.0" \
    && wget https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/download/v${LIBHEIF_VERSION}/libheif-${LIBHEIF_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && tar xvf libheif-${LIBHEIF_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && cd libheif-${LIBHEIF_VERSION} \
    && ./configure --prefix /usr \
    && make -j4 \
    && make install \
    && ldconfig

# libffi
RUN set -ex \
    && cd /build-deps \
    && LIBFFI_VERSION="3.3" \
    && wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-${LIBFFI_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && tar xvf libffi-${LIBFFI_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && cd libffi-${LIBFFI_VERSION} \
    && ./configure --prefix /usr \
    && make -j4 \
    && make install \
    && ldconfig

[ComradeAERGO]

I found a workaround using the dockerfile in your repo to build the incompatible libraries inside my container but it's a bit clumsy.

For reference these are the lines I used:

# libde265
RUN set -ex \
    && cd /build-deps \
    && LIBDE265_VERSION="1.0.5" \
    && wget https://github.com/strukturag/libde265/releases/download/v${LIBDE265_VERSION}/libde265-${LIBDE265_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && tar xvf libde265-${LIBDE265_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && cd libde265-${LIBDE265_VERSION} \
    && ./autogen.sh \
    && ./configure --prefix /usr \
    && make -j4 \
    && make install \
    && ldconfig

# libheif
RUN set -ex \
    && cd /build-deps \
    && LIBHEIF_VERSION="1.7.0" \
    && wget https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/download/v${LIBHEIF_VERSION}/libheif-${LIBHEIF_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && tar xvf libheif-${LIBHEIF_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && cd libheif-${LIBHEIF_VERSION} \
    && ./configure --prefix /usr \
    && make -j4 \
    && make install \
    && ldconfig

# libffi
RUN set -ex \
    && cd /build-deps \
    && LIBFFI_VERSION="3.3" \
    && wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-${LIBFFI_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && tar xvf libffi-${LIBFFI_VERSION}.tar.gz \
    && cd libffi-${LIBFFI_VERSION} \
    && ./configure --prefix /usr \
    && make -j4 \
    && make install \
    && ldconfig

Ran into the same issue. The workaround was effective.