No such file or directory “limits.h” when installing Pillow on Alpine Linux

Question

I\'m running alpine-linux on a Raspberry Pi 2. I\'m trying to install Pillow via this command:

pip install pillow

This is the output from the

Answer 1

I've found some python packages fail to install via pip install but work if you install the associated alpine linux package. For example pip install uwsgi fails complaining about limits.h, but apk add uwsgi-python works fine. Suggest trying apk add py-pillow instead of pip install pillow.

Answer 2

limits.h is located in libc-dev:

apk add libc-dev

Answer 3

@zakaria answer is correct, but if you stumble upon

fatal error: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory

then you need the package linux-headers (notice the prefix linux before limits.h

apk add linux-headers

Answer 4

I had very similar problem with installing python library regex in docker pyhton:3.6-alpine image, Alpine linux >= 3.3.

pip install regex

I had to add gcc and musl-dev packages

apk --no-cache add gcc musl-dev

Answer 5

Alpine Linux uses musl libc. You probably need to install musl-dev.