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

Hit the same error with macOS High Sierra, Python3.6 installed with brew. Solution for me was to export these flags, mentioned in this comment: Error when install pylibmc using pip

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include"

After that, pip install run just fine.

Answer 2

Sometimes the X-Code Command Line Tools need to be installed.

 xcode-select -p

Answer 3

For those finding this answer on Fedora:

sudo yum install libmemcached-devel

Answer 4

It's in the libmemcached package. To install it using macports:

sudo port install libmemcached

Then, assuming you're using pip:

pip install pylibmc --install-option="--with-libmemcached=/opt/local"

or

LIBMEMCACHED=/opt/local pip install pylibmc

as explained in the pylibmc docs.