Unable to set up developer environment on Mac M1

System Info

As MacBooks with the M1 chip need tensorflow-macos installed instead of tensorflow>=2.3 (as listed in the setup.py) file trying to set up a developer environment on a M1 MacBook produces the following error:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow>=2.3; extra == "dev" (from transformers[dev]) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow>=2.3; extra == "dev"

Is there any way around this? I tried replacing with tensorflow-macos but that creates a myriad of other issues when trying to set up the developer environment.

transformers 4.21.0 python 3.9.12

Who can help?

No response

Information

• The official example scripts
• My own modified scripts

Tasks

• An officially supported task in the examples folder (such as GLUE/SQuAD, …)
• My own task or dataset (give details below)

Reproduction

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Expected behavior

Developer environment should be installed without errors.

[KMFODA]

Amazing that seems to work for now. Thanks for the help!

[ArthurZucker]

Hey! Thanks for the issue. I managed to get it work doing the following :

1. Replace tensorflow with tensorflow-macos in the setup.py file.
2. Install particular dependencies manually

brew install llvm
conda install -c apple tensorflow-deps
python -m pip install tensorflow-macos
python -m pip install tensorflow-metal
pip3 install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu
pip install fugashi==1.1.2a6
pip install numba
brew install cmake 
brew install rust 
conda install -c conda-forge onnxruntime

1. Just run pip install -e ".[dev]" and it should work 😃.