Can't build pyverovio: missing libmei/attconverter.cpp in v5.0.0 and v5.1.0?

[fpachet]

Hi Verovio team 👋

I'm building a Docker-based app that uses pyverovio to render MEI files with Gradio. I’m following the recommended build process (e.g. from the Verovio Book), and I'm using git checkout tags/version-5.0.0 (also tried 5.1.0).

When I try to run pip install . inside bindings/python, the build fails with:

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fatal error: ../../libmei/attconverter.cpp: No such file or directory
I noticed that the Verovio repo includes libmei/ — but in these tags, the required C++ source files like attconverter.cpp are not present. The README says they should be included.

Questions:

Are the libmei/*.cpp files no longer bundled by design?

Is the expectation that we generate these from libmei ourselves before building pyverovio?

If so, is there a documented workflow for this?

Thanks for your work — and for clarifying what the correct approach should be!

[rettinghaus]

I just tried it and everything works as documented.
You cannot be inside bindings/python when using pip install .. You can use pip to install it somewhere else, see https://book.verovio.org/installing-or-building-from-sources/python.html#building-with-pip. To build it locally you need to run setup.py from the projects root directory.

[fpachet]

ok thanks!

[ahankinson]

You can also just pip install verovio — you don’t need to build it from source it’s available from PyPI.