QuTech-Delft / QuTech-Delft/quantuminspire

QI & CLI does not install - tried many approaches

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Description

I need to install quantuminspire on a new MacOS machine. I am getting this error:

I tried with quantuminspire2 and quantuminspire from your GitHub.

I downloaded and unzipped the package and used pipx. Tried many options and combinations. I also tried inside conda and with no conda in a new plain Python environment. Always get this error:

(paulisMIDI) iccmr@ICCMRs-Mac-mini quantuminspire-master % pipx install .
Fatal error from pip prevented installation. Full pip output in file:
/Users/iccmr/.local/pipx/logs/cmd_2025-05-10_13.06.36_pip_errors.log
pip seemed to fail to build package:
symengine>=0.11
Some possibly relevant errors from pip install:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement libqasm==0.6.7 (from opensquirrel) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for libqasm==0.6.7
Error installing quantuminspire from spec '/Users/iccmr/quantuminspire-master'.

I also used 'pipx quantuminspire'. Nothing.

The problem seems to be libqasm ?!?

Can you advise, please?

I use MacOS, 15.41. Python 3.10

Thank you

Eduardo Miranda

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macos, python
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build-system, cli
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