Installing Keras – ERROR: Failed building wheel for dm-tree

January 15, 2024

I’m trying to install keras on Windows with Python 3.12.1 and am unable to do so due to the error in th title. The full error is below:

https://stackoverflow.com/Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\Nate\PycharmProjects\first_flask\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, i
n <module>
          main()
        File "C:\Users\Nate\PycharmProjects\first_flask\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, i
n main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Nate\PycharmProjects\first_flask\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 251, i
n build_wheel
          return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 404, in build_wheel 
          return self._build_with_temp_dir(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 389, in _build_with_
temp_dir
          self.run_setup()
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 480, in run_setup   
          super(_BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 311, in run_setup   
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 124, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 103, in setup
          return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 185, in setup  
          return run_commands(dist)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 201, in run_com
mands
          dist.run_commands()
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 969, in run_com
mands
          self.run_command(cmd)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 963, in run_command       
          super().run_command(command)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_com
mand
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\wheel\bdist_wheel.py", line 368, in run
          self.run_command("build")
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 318, in run_comm
and
          self.distribution.run_command(command)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 963, in run_command       
          super().run_command(command)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_com
mand
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build.py", line 131, i
n run
          self.run_command(cmd_name)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 318, in run_comm
and
          self.distribution.run_command(command)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 963, in run_command       
          super().run_command(command)
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hjzyqeky\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_com
mand
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "<string>", line 72, in run
        File "<string>", line 110, in build_extension
        File "C:\Users\Nate\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call
          raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
      subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['cmake', '--build', '.', '-j16', '--config', 'Release']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
      [end of output]
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for dm-tree
Failed to build dm-tree
ERROR: Could not build wheels for dm-tree, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

In my enviroment variables PATH I have the C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312 directory but am wondering if I should also have the C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts directory. Not sure if that’s a potential cause of this error. Any help getting the install to work is appreciated. ALso, I’d prefer not to have to install a different python version is possible as I’ve seen others suggest installing python 3.11.