Unable to install grpcio using pip install grpcio

Question

I am getting error while installing grpcio using pip install grpcio on my windows machine.I read here - https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/17829 that it may be due to error in

Answer 1

First, upgrade pip

pip3 install --upgrade pip

Then, update the setup tools:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools

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At last, install grpcio using :

pip3 install --no-cache-dir  --force-reinstall -Iv grpcio==<version_number>

Answer 2

I ran into same issue using python 3.7 with setuptools is 41.0.1 while installing package that includes building wheel for gracio ... Building wheel for grpcio (setup.py) ... error

warning: include path for stdlibc++ headers not found; pass '-stdlib=libc++' on the command line to use the libc++ standard library instead [-Wstdlibcxx-not-found]
src/python/Gracie/grpc/_cython/cygrpc.cpp:1343:14: fatal error: 'cstdlib' file not found
    #include <cstdlib>
             ^~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.

Could NOT find a way to resolve above, but I tried with another environment with Python 3.6.x with same setuptools 41.0.1. Somehow "setup" found the prebuilt wheel for gracio (i.e. grpcio==1.11.0), and got through setup.