ERROR: Could not build wheels for ndi-python, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Question

I am trying to install ndi-python package in my mac, I am getting the below error, anyone got idea on how to fix this issue.

 CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:10 (add_subdirectory):
        add_subdirectory given source "lib/pybind11" which is not an existing
        directory.
      
      
      -- Found NDI: /Library/NDI SDK for Apple
      CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:19 (pybind11_add_module):
        Unknown CMake command "pybind11_add_module".
      
      
      -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
      error: command '/opt/homebrew/bin/cmake' failed with exit code 1
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for ndi-python
  Running setup.py clean for ndi-python
Failed to build ndi-python
**ERROR: Could not build wheels for ndi-python, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects**

Console Logs

Scenario I am working on: Listing all the ndi sources available

I tried installing ndi-python

command used: pip install ndi-python
Python version: 3.9
IDE used: PyCharm

Answer 1

Take a look at the first part of your error message, which says:

add_subdirectory given source "lib/pybind11" which is not an existing directory.

As Tsyvarev stated, this is a git submodule. See https://github.com/buresu/ndi-python/tree/master/lib. It sounds like you did a clone without passing the --recurse-submodules flag. You can fix this though, by running git submodule update --init (See also Pull git submodules after cloning project from GitHub).