How can I fix gcc error when install multidict in alpine docker container?

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Q: In my docker container, i use apline linux system which has been pre install gcc

apk info:

bash-4.4# apk info
....
gcc

But when I install multidict, failed by gcc error

bash-4.4# pip install multidict
Collecting multidict
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/84/96/5503ba866d8d216e49a6ce3bcb288df8a5fb3ac8a90b8fcff9ddcda32568/multidict-4.7.3.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: multidict
  Building wheel for multidict (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /usr/local/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-79jceuft/multidict/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-79jceuft/multidict/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-57k4lw21 --python-tag cp37
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-79jceuft/multidict/
 ....
    /usr/local/include/python3.7m/Python.h:11:20: fatal error: limits.h: No such file or directory
     #include <limits.h>
                        ^
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/local/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-79jceuft/multidict/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-79jceuft/multidict/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-lomj_vmk/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full command output.

How can i fix this problem?

Does [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/30873179/12521158) help? — kopecs, Dec 31 '19 at 03:12

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 19 '20 at 05:56

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Simple fix was to add the below command in the dockerfile:

RUN apk --no-cache add gcc musl-dev

_{thanks to @Zosionlee for hint.}

edited Oct 19 '20 at 05:56

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answered Oct 19 '20 at 05:54

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score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 15 '20 at 10:10

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pre install gcc and other environments.

e.g.

RUN apk update \
    && apk add --no-cache gcc git python3-dev musl-dev linux-headers  
    libc-dev  rsync zsh \
    findutils wget util-linux grep libxml2-dev libxslt-dev \
    &&  pip3 install --upgrade pip

edited Oct 15 '20 at 10:10

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answered Apr 15 '20 at 13:28

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 11 '20 at 13:20

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Encountered this issue, what fixed my problem without having to sudo install on the system:

$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools-scm

I did this within a virtual environment too.

answered Dec 11 '20 at 13:20

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How can I fix gcc error when install multidict in alpine docker container?

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