python - Error installing uwsgi in virtualenv

Question

I'm trying to install uswgi in a virutal env on linux ubuntu, python 3.5.2 I do

pip install uwsgi

I got this error

Failed building wheel for uwsgi

and at the end of the installing logs

    *** uWSGI compiling embedded plugins ***
[thread 0][x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread] plugins/python/python_plugin.o
[thread 1][x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread] plugins/python/pyutils.o
In file included from plugins/python/python_plugin.c:1:0:
plugins/python/uwsgi_python.h:2:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
In file included from plugins/python/pyutils.c:1:0:
plugins/python/uwsgi_python.h:2:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

----------------------------------------

Command "/home/ubuntu/envflask/env/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-wthov1ur/uwsgi/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('
', '
');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-quiupta5-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/ubuntu/envflask/env/include/site/python3.5/uwsgi" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-wthov1ur/uwsgi/

• Linux 4.4.0-66-generic x86_64
• Python 3.5.2

It is any solution for this? Thanks

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44037637/error-installing-uwsgi-in-virtualenv

Answer 1

You need to install Python3.5 development files, so run this command:

apt-get install python3.5-dev

The above command will install Python 3 headers to build uWSGI from source.