when installing pyaudio, pip cannot find portaudio.h in /usr/local/include
PythonMacosPyaudioPython Problem Overview
I'm using mac osx 10.10 As the PyAudio Homepage said, I install the PyAudio using
brew install portaudio
pip install pyaudio
the installation of portaudio seems successful, I can find headers and libs in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib but when I try to install pyaudio, it gives me an error that
src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:10: fatal error: 'portaudio.h' file not found
#include "portaudio.h"
^
1 error generated.
error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1
actually it is in /usr/local/include why can't it find the file? some answers to similar questions are not working for me(like using virtualenv, or compile it manually), and I want to find a simple way to solve this.
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
Since pyAudio has portAudio as a dependency, you first have to install portaudio.
brew install portaudio
Then try: pip install pyAudio. If the problem persists after installing portAudio, you can specify the directory path where the compiler will be able to find the source programs (e.g: portaudio.h). Since the headers should be in the /usr/local/include directory:
pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/usr/local/include' --global-option='-L/usr/local/lib' pyaudio
Solution 2 - Python
On Ubuntu builds:
sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio
For Python3:
sudo apt-get install python3-pyaudio
Solution 3 - Python
You have to install portaudio first then link that file. Only then you can find that header file (i.e, portaudio.h). To install portaudio in mac by using HomeBrew program use following commands.
brew install portaudio
brew link portaudio
pip install pyaudio
sudo is not needed if you're admin. We should refrain using sudo as it messes up lots of permissions.
Solution 4 - Python
First, you can use Homebrew to install portaudio.
> brew install portaudio
Then try to find the portaudio path:
sudo find / -name "portaudio.h"
In my case it is at /usr/local/Cellar/portaudio/19.6.0/include .
Run the command below to install pyaudio
> pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/usr/local/Cellar/portaudio/19.6.0/include' --global-option='-L/usr/local/Cellar/portaudio/19.6.0/lib' pyaudio
Solution 5 - Python
On Raspbian:
sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio
Solution 6 - Python
on Centos:
yum install -y portaudio portaudio-devel && pip install pyaudio
Solution 7 - Python
Just for the record for folks using MacPorts and not Homebrew:
$ [sudo] port install portaudio
$ pip install pyaudio --global-option="build_ext" --global-option="-I/opt/local/include" --global-option="-L/opt/local/lib"
Solution 8 - Python
I needed to do the following to install PortAudio on Debian
sudo apt install portaudio19-dev
I also apt install'd python3-portaudio before that, although it didn't work. I'm not sure if that contributed as well.
Solution 9 - Python
For me on 10.10.5 the paths were under /opt/local. I had to add /opt/local/bin to my /etc/paths file. And the command line that worked was
sudo pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/opt/local/include' --global-option='-L/opt/local/lib' pyaudio
Solution 10 - Python
Adding a bit of robustness (in case of a non-default homebrew dir) to the snippet from @fukudama,
brew install portaudio
pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option="-I$(brew --prefix)/include" --global-option="-L$(brew --prefix)/lib" pyaudio
Solution 11 - Python
If you are using anaconda/miniconda to manage your python environments then
conda install pyaudio
installs portaudio at the same time as pyaudio
The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:
portaudio pkgs/main/osx-64::portaudio-19.6.0-h647c56a_4
pyaudio pkgs/main/osx-64::pyaudio-0.2.11-py37h1de35cc_2
Solution 12 - Python
On Termux (this is what worked for me):
pkg install pythonbash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://its-pointless.github.io/setup-pointless-repo.sh)"pkg install portaudiopip install pyaudio
Source: pyaudio installing #6235