Error installing python-snappy: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory

I am using amazon ec2 ubuntu 11.04 server

 sudo pip install python-snappy 

also I tried to downloaded package and entered "sudo python setup.py install"

I got the error:

  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'snappy' extension
  gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c snappymodule.cc -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/snappymodule.o
  cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wstrict-prototypes’ is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++ [enabled by default]
  snappymodule.cc:31:22: fatal error: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

How i could get rid of this error?

source: https://github.com/andrix/python-snappy

You can install Snappy C library with following commands:

DEB-based: sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev

RPM-based: sudo yum install libsnappy-devel

Brew: brew install snappy

According to the repo

How to install it on Mac OS X?

It has been reported a few times (Issue #7 and #23) that it can't be installed correctly the library in Mac. The procedure should be,

$ brew install snappy # snappy library from Google 
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" pip install python-snappy

You need Snappy C library

Then you have to install python-snappy wrapper.

It seems you didn't install Snappy-C library

Try it ..as already a fellow commented for your post

> UPDATE: See more highly upvoted post below, which includes instructions to install on DEB-based, RPM-based, and Mac OS (Brew).

1. You download snappy lib at here: https://code.google.com/p/snappy/
2. Extract it
3. Install by command lines follows: $: ./configure $: make $: make install
4. Install python-snappy: $: pip install python-snappy

I had some trouble getting snappy to install. Finally downloaded the pre-build stuff as offered by https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and all went well. (Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages)

for Oracle Linux with Python 3.X:

you need to enable optional_latest repository as a first step,

1. use for enabling the following repo

$ yum-config-manager --enable ol7_optional_latest

"ol7_optional_latest" repo will be enabled for yum lookup.

2. then install packages using,

$ yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ snappy snappy-devel

3. then with pip install the python-snappy package,

$ pip3 install python-snappy

had lots of issues installing on El Capitan, with an error saying that the snappy-c.h file was not found.

Had to install snappy from tar.gz file https://github.com/google/snappy/releases/download/1.1.3/snappy-1.1.3.tar.gz

untar and run

./configure
make
make install

it will put the header file in /usr/local/include

then needed to set FLAGS for the cc compiler to find the header file:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/include
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"

and then I installed python-snappy from the egg file https://pypi.python.org/packages/b1/fe/1d632cdac5dbb5ce84db778af7f733eb469130d8cf4c02f6cd9057a96768/snappy-2.4.1-py2.7-macosx-10.5-intel.egg#md5=b76558c71f1d97feeb8402c345e466bf

you can try with pip install python-snappy but it originally failed to find the header file, so i went for the egg file

to install the egg:

easy_install <eggfile>
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

You need to check the output for

rpm -q snappy-devel

If it is not present, then install it using this command:

yum install snappy-devel

If you are on Mac OS X Catalina, you can install with

brew install snappy
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -stdlib=libc++ " pip install python-snappy

as suggested by https://github.com/andrix/python-snappy FAQ

Fix for macOS M1. You have to define absolute path to lib and include for snappy.

brew install snappy
pip install \                               
  --upgrade --ignore-installed \
  python-snappy==0.5.4 \
  --global-option=build_ext \
  --global-option="-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/snappy/1.1.9/include" \
  --global-option="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/snappy/1.1.9/lib"

This fixed my issue:

yum install gcc-c++  

I was having troubles with this for a while. FYI I'm trying to install Crossbar (https://crossbar.io/docs/Installation-on-Linux/)

I did a bunch of googling and messed around quite a bit. I'm using Python 3.7.4 and what I think solved my problem is this :

sudo yum install python-devel

if that doesn't work try

sudo yum install python3-devel

source:

https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1143#issuecomment-475354786

https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1143

To solve this issue in Mac OS X with MacPorts installed, you can do:

$ sudo port install snappy
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib" pip install python-snappy