How do I install python-ldap in a virtualenv on Ubuntu?

Question

I keep getting GCC compilation errors:

$ pip install python-ldap
...
compilation terminated.

error: command \'gcc\' failed with exit status 1

Answer 1

I found this blog post which has the answer:

http://blog.mattwoodward.com/2012/10/installing-python-ldap-in-virtualenv-on.html

Essentially, you need to ensure you have the necessary development libraries installed:

sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev python-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev