pocketsphinx-python-wheels

A collection of pre-built wheels for PocketSphinx.

All of the pocketsphinx-0.1.15... wheels are built from the bambocher fork, which is now out of date. There is a currently active fork but they have released a limited number of wheels and only for the x86 architecture. I have compiled as many wheels from the active fork as I can.

Why is this here?

When installing PocketSphinx it will often fail (using PIP) as the latest wheels provided are for Python 3.6 and to build the source code you need SWIG and GIT (and you need them on your PATH).
So these pre-built wheels serve as a way to install PocketSphinx on newer versions of Python without having to build it yourself. After these are installed, pip can upgrade you to the latest version.

Contents

Pocketsphinx 5.0.0 (active fork)

Python Version	aarch64	i686	ppc64le	s390x	x86_64
3.6	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Official
3.7	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
PyPy 3.7	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
3.8	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Official
PyPy 3.8	Yes	Yes	No	No	Official
3.9	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
PyPy 3.9	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
3.10	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Official
3.11	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

The coverage here is a bit patchy. Any version labelled "Official" can be found on the pocketsphinx PyPI releases page and so are not covered by this repo

Pocketsphinx 0.1.15 (bambocher fork)

Python Version	aarch64	i686	ppc64le	s390x	x86_64
3.6	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3.7	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PyPy 3.7	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
3.8	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PyPy 3.8	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
3.9	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PyPy 3.9	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
3.10	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3.11	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

How to install

Download the .whl file corresponding to your OS and python version. They are usually named as such:

pocketsphinx-0.1.15-[python version]-[python version]-[OS]-[CPU Architecture].whl  

So the wheel for Python 3.8 on Windows 64 bit would be called pocketsphinx-0.1.15-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl
Next run pip3 install path/to/the/whl/file/file.whl
Run pip3 install --upgrade pocketsphinx to ensure you are on the latest version
Profit!

How to build manylinux wheels

Download docker and run the pypa manylinux docker containers for each arch you wish to build for. Once inside the container, run this command:

apt update && apt install wget -y && wget https://github.com/Crozzers/pocketsphinx-python-wheels/raw/master/build-manylinux-wheel.sh && bash build-manylinux-wheel.sh

If you are using a CentOS based container then swap apt for yum. This will download the build-manylinux-wheel.sh script from this repo and run it. It should download all the required tools to build the wheels and automatically build wheels for every python version installed on that container.

Alternatively, if you have docker installed and running, you can simply run the build-docker.sh script to automatically build wheels for all manylinux_2_24 arches.

mkdir build && cd build
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Crozzers/pocketsphinx-python-wheels/master/build-docker.sh > build-docker.sh
sudo bash build-docker.sh

You may need to run the following command to enable running different architectures from an x86 host (eg: aarch64)

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes

See multiarch/qemu-user-static for details