`capstone` 5.0.1 fails to install from pip on Windows ARM64

[mscottford]

Work environment

Questions	Answers
OS/arch/bits	Windows arm64
Architecture	arm64
Source of Capstone	pip
Version/git commit	v5.0.1

Expected behavior

Running pip install capstone==5.0.1 on a Windows ARM workstation will run setup.py which will then delegate to cmake to create a capstone.dll correctly.

Actual behavior

Running pip install capstone==5.0.1 on Windows ARM results in a compilation error with the following output:

❯ pip install capstone==5.0.1
Collecting capstone
  Using cached capstone-5.0.1.tar.gz (2.9 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: capstone
  Building wheel for capstone (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for capstone (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [54 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      Building C extensions
      -- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.40.33812.0
      -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.40.33812.0
      -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
      -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
      -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/bin/Hostx64/arm64/cl.exe - skipped
      -- Detecting C compile features
      -- Detecting C compile features - done
      -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
      -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
      -- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/bin/Hostx64/arm64/cl.exe - skipped
      -- Detecting CXX compile features
      -- Detecting CXX compile features - done
      Enabling CAPSTONE_ARM_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_ARM64_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_M68K_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_MIPS_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_PPC_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_SPARC_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_SYSZ_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_XCORE_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_X86_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_TMS320C64X_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_M680X_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_EVM_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_MOS65XX_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_WASM_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_BPF_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_RISCV_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_SH_SUPPORT
      Enabling CAPSTONE_TRICORE_SUPPORT
      CMake Error: File C:/Users/ScottFord/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-q4517k2w/capstone_d3c8687c49ad46db95ec0b37608615d5/src/capstone.pc.in does not exist.
      CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:700 (configure_file):
        configure_file Problem configuring file


      CMake Error: File C:/Users/ScottFord/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-q4517k2w/capstone_d3c8687c49ad46db95ec0b37608615d5/src/capstone-config.cmake.in does not exist.
      CMake Error at C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/CMakePackageConfigHelpers.cmake:344 (configure_file):
        configure_file Problem configuring file
      Call Stack (most recent call first):
        CMakeLists.txt:705 (configure_package_config_file)


      CMake Error: File C:/Users/ScottFord/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-q4517k2w/capstone_d3c8687c49ad46db95ec0b37608615d5/src/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in does not exist.
      CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:737 (configure_file):
        configure_file Problem configuring file


      -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
      NMAKE : fatal error U1052: file 'Makefile' not found
      Stop.
      error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'capstone.dll'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for capstone
Failed to build capstone
ERROR: Could not build wheels for capstone, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

This appears to be because the following files required to build capstone on Windows ARM are not included as part of the source Python package (not version with a pre-built binary included). This is not an issue for Windows on x32/x64, because a platform specific package has been uploaded to PyPI for those OS/Architecture combinations.

Specifically, the call to cmake, as performed by setup.py, is failing to run because the capstone.pc.in, capstone-config.cmake.in, and cmake_uninstall.cmake.in files are not present in the source PyPI package. After experimenting with running cmake from the installation cache, after running pip install capstone==5.0.1 --no-clean, I experimented with copying those files from the GitHub repository, and I was able to get past that error, however others did appear.

To work around the problem, I did the following:

• Cloned the repository with git
• cd bindings\python
• python setup.py bdist_wheel
• cd dist
• pip install .\capstone-5.0.1-py3-none-win_arm64.whi

Suggested fixes are to either release a binary PyPI package for Windows ARM and/or ensure that the files needed to build for Windows ARM are included in the source PyPI package.