Problem building wheels. Numpy.distutils issue?

[Artemis201]

I'm struggling to install this on my Windows 11 computer with miniconda (my friend on Mac installed it just fine).

I've got Python 3.11.9 installed (to address the depreciated numpy.distutils issue). I also just installed Microsoft Visual Studio for this, but the error may be related to that?
It seems to work fine until it gets to "Building Wheels for Collected packages: helita". It exists the subprocess with the below error:

    Building wheels for collected packages: helita
      Building wheel for helita (pyproject.toml) ... error
      error: subprocess-exited-with-error
    
      × Building wheel for helita (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
      │ exit code: 1
      ╰─> [194 lines of output]
          <string>:8: Deprecation
    Warning:

    'numpy.distutils' is deprecated since NumPy 1.23.0, as a result
    of the deprecation of `distutils` itself. It will be removed for
    Python >= 3.12. For older Python versions it will remain present.
    It is recommended to use `setuptools < 60.0` for those Python versions.
    For more details, see:
      https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/distutils_status_migration.html

After that I get a few dozen warnings or errors like:

    WARNING setuptools_scm.pyproject_reading toml section missing 'pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section'

    INFO: No module named 'numpy.distutils._msvccompiler' in numpy.distutils; trying from distutils

  WARN: CCompilerOpt.feature_test[1563] : testing failed
        INFO: CCompilerOpt.feature_test[1547] : testing feature 'POPCNT' with flags ()
        WARN: CCompilerOpt.dist_test[630] : CCompilerOpt._dist_test_spawn[764] : Command (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.39.33519\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\miniconda3\envs\myenv\include -IC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\miniconda3\envs\myenv\Include -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.39.33519\include -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\um -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\shared -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\winrt -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\cppwinrt /TcC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-jvbvidyg\overlay\Lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\checks\cpu_popcnt.c /FoC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp4w9skjle\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-jvbvidyg\overlay\Lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\checks\cpu_popcnt.obj /WX) failed with exit status 2 output ->
        cpu_popcnt.c
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.39.33519\include\xmmintrin.h(79): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'malloc.h': No such file or directory


     error: Command "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.39.33519\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-jvbvidyg\overlay\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include -Ihelita\io/src -IC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-jvbvidyg\overlay\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include -Ibuild\src.win-amd64-3.11\numpy\distutils\include -IC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\miniconda3\envs\myenv\include -IC:\Users\vikn0392\AppData\Local\miniconda3\envs\myenv\Include -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.39.33519\include -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\um -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\shared -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\winrt -IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\include\\\cppwinrt /Tchelita\io/anapyio.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-cpython-311\Release\helita\io\anapyio.obj" failed with exit status 2

I'm new to python and so I'm not sure if I've included all the information that's relevant. Let me know if I can provide more.
Thanks

[tiagopereira]

Helita has never been tested in Windows. It will probably not work.

[tiagopereira]

ef0255e fixed the python 3.12 problem, so it should work for all versions now. At least in Linux and MacOS.