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Posted: **Wed Dec 21, 2022 1:14 am**

Can anyone help me get past this?
I'm trying to configure the ESP-IDF Extension for Visual Studio Code. All the prerequisites installed fine, the first part of the wizard installed fine, but during the last step (Python virtual env) it fails:

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Building wheel for lxml (setup.py): finished with status 'error'

then further down

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src/lxml/etree.c:96:10: fatal error: 'Python.h' file not found
      #include "Python.h"
               ^~~~~~~~~~
      1 error generated.
      Compile failed: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1

in the end it says

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error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> lxml

Here is the full output: https://pastebin.com/xxqKwcDB

Any help would be much appreciated!

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:59 pm**

I got the same error, apparently the problem is the version of python that is installed on the MAC.
What worked for me was to reinstall python3 using Homebrew and I installed the IDF from the VSCode plugin, I used the IDF version 4.3.4.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:06 pm**

numlock wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 21, 2022 1:14 am
I got the same error, apparently the problem is the version of python that is installed on the MAC.
What worked for me was to reinstall python3 using Homebrew and I installed the IDF from the VSCode plugin, I used the IDF version 4.3.4.

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