OSX Mojave, python 3.7.1 did the following: - installed openfst 1.5.4 - `$ export CFLAGS="-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.7" && export CPATH="/usr/local/include"` - `pip install pyfst` Had lots of compilation errors. Downgrading to python 3.6.4 solved the issue.