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

You can install Snappy C library with following commands:

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

RPM-based: sudo yum install csnappy-devel

Alpine (Docker) apk add --no-cache snappy-dev g++

MacOS: See Riley’s answer below.

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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"

For Windows

1. Download from here

2. Extract the Zip.

3. Copy the .h files from include folder. Paste in to the python installation folder
   C:UsersuserAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310include

4. Copy snappy64.lib from native folder. Paste in to python installation folder
   C:UsersuserAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310libs

5. Rename snappy64.lib to snappy.lib

6. you are good to go. Re-try command pip install -r .requirements.txt