Error when install pylibmc using pip

Question

Hello when I attempt to install pylibmc on OSX Lion using pip I get the following error:

./_pylibmcmodule.h:42:10: fatal error: \'libmemcached/memcached.h\' file         


        

Answer 1

libmemcached may also be installed using Homebrew.

brew install libmemcached

After that, pip install pylibmc worked for me without needing to specify any additional arguments.