Support: Building on macOS 12

[KangarooKoala]

Problem description

Expected behavior: Running pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e . (based on dist.yml) from the repo root works.
Actual behavior: Command fails with some of the following output:

INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of robotpy-commands-v2 to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement wpilib<2026,>=2025.0.0b1 (from robotpy-commands-v2) (from versions: 2015.0.0, 2015.0.1, 2015.0.2, 2015.0.3, 2015.0.4, 2015.0.5, 2015.0.6, 2015.0.7, 2015.0.8, 2015.0.9, 2015.0.10, 2015.0.11, 2015.0.12, 2015.0.13, 2015.0.14, 2015.0.15, 2016.0.0, 2016.1.0, 2016.1.1, 2016.1.2, 2016.1.3, 2016.1.4, 2016.2.0, 2016.2.1, 2016.2.2, 2016.2.3, 2016.2.4, 2017.0.0, 2017.0.1, 2017.0.2, 2017.0.3, 2017.0.4, 2017.0.5, 2017.0.6, 2017.0.7, 2017.0.8, 2017.0.9, 2017.0.10, 2017.0.11, 2017.1.0, 2017.1.1, 2017.1.2, 2018.0.0, 2018.0.1, 2018.0.2, 2018.0.3, 2018.0.4, 2018.0.5, 2018.0.6, 2018.0.7, 2018.0.8, 2018.0.9, 2018.0.10, 2018.0.11, 2018.0.12, 2018.0.13, 2018.0.14, 2018.1.0, 2018.1.1, 2018.1.2, 2018.1.3, 2018.1.4, 2018.1.5, 2018.1.6, 2019.0.0, 2019.0.1, 2019.0.2, 2019.0.3, 2019.1.0, 2019.1.1, 2019.1.2, 2019.2.0, 2019.2.1, 2019.2.2, 2019.2.3, 2020.1.2.1, 2020.1.2.2, 2020.1.2.3, 2020.2.2.0, 2020.2.2.1, 2020.2.2.2, 2020.2.2.3, 2020.2.2.4, 2020.2.2.5, 2020.2.2.6, 2020.2.2.7, 2020.2.2.8, 2020.2.2.10, 2020.2.2.11, 2020.2.2.12, 2020.2.2.13, 2020.3.2.0, 2020.3.2.1, 2020.3.2.2, 2020.3.2.3, 2020.3.2.4, 2020.3.2.5, 2021.1.2.0, 2021.2.1.0, 2021.2.2.0, 2021.2.2.1, 2021.3.1.0, 2022.2.1.0, 2022.2.1.1, 2022.2.1.3, 2022.2.1.4, 2022.2.1.5, 2022.3.1.0, 2022.3.1.1, 2022.4.1.0, 2022.4.1.1, 2022.4.1.2, 2022.4.1.3, 2022.4.1.4, 2022.4.1.5, 2022.4.1.6, 2023.0.0b3, 2023.0.0b4, 2023.0.0b4.post1, 2023.0.0b5, 2023.0.0b6, 2023.0.0b7, 2023.0.0b7.post1, 2023.1.1.0, 2023.2.1.0, 2023.2.1.1, 2023.3.1.0, 2023.3.2.1, 2023.4.1.0, 2023.4.2.0, 2023.4.3.0, 2024.0.0b2, 2024.0.0b2.post1, 2024.0.0b3, 2024.0.0b3.post1, 2024.0.0b3.post2, 2024.0.0b4, 2024.0.0b4.post1, 2024.1.1.0, 2024.1.1.1, 2024.2.1.0, 2024.2.1.1, 2024.2.1.2, 2024.2.1.3, 2024.3.1.0, 2024.3.2.0, 2024.3.2.1)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for wpilib<2026,>=2025.0.0b1

(This still happens on 11/25, after the release of wpilib 2025.0.0b2. Trying pip install wpilib==2025.0.0b2 (from copy-pasting from the pypi website) also fails, as does pip install wpilib==2025.0.0b2 --pre.)

Operating System

MacOS

Installed Python Packages

N/A (I am trying to install packages in the first place)

Reproducible example code

N/A (I am trying to install packages in the first place)

[virtuald]

What version of Python and what version of macOS? There are macOS 13+ universal2 wheels published to https://pypi.org/project/wpilib/2025.0.0b2/

[virtuald]

Actually, it looks like 3.9 and 3.10 are x86_64 only. In either case, you probably should install 3.13 from Python.org, recreate your virtualenv, and try again.

[KangarooKoala]

What version of Python and what version of macOS? There are macOS 13+ universal2 wheels published to https://pypi.org/project/wpilib/2025.0.0b2/

Python 3.11, but macOS is 12.7.6 since the hardware model only supports up to Monterey (12), not Ventura (13).

Downloading the wheel Python 3.11 wheel from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4f/2f/d7f2288a1734f34e3aed922b6390a5f56acc48e10af9d9b01a6421ea912d/wpilib-2025.0.0b2-cp311-cp311-macosx_13_0_universal2.whl and running pip3 install <pathtowheel> fails with the following output:

% pip3 install Downloads/wpilib-2025.0.0b2-cp311-cp311-macosx_13_0_universal2.whl
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
ERROR: wpilib-2025.0.0b2-cp311-cp311-macosx_13_0_universal2.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

I know macOS 13 is currently the lowest supported version for WPILib and presumably also robotpy, so I guess I'm out of luck until my parents get a new laptop? Would it be possible to build mostrobotpy locally (potentially with some local shims to make it work) and use that instead?

[auscompgeek]

You won't be able to build mostrobotpy, since WPILib requires macOS 13, unless you manage to build it against a local build of WPILib.

[sciencewhiz]

Python 3.11, but macOS is 12.7.6 since the hardware model only supports up to Monterey (12), not Ventura (13).

I've successfully used https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ to update to macOS 13 on a 2012 Mac mini that officially only supports up to macOS 10.15. Note that macOS 12 no longer is supported
by Apple.

[virtuald]

I don't think there's anything we can do about this unless wpilib supports an older macOS.