Compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/uwsgi

Question

I'm trying to follow the tutorial at http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html. I've gotten everything working down tohttp://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html#install-uwsgi-system-wide. I am working with an ubuntu 14.4 instance on amazon EC2:

Without going into my virtualenv , I ran:

sudo pip install uwsgi 

This led to :

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/uwsgi/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-64P2dl-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/uwsgi
Storing debug log for failure in /home/ubuntu/.pip/pip.log

The log has:

Cleaning up...
  Removing temporary dir /tmp/pip_build_ubuntu...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-uLEPHb-build/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-hPh8D0-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-uLEPHb-build
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
    requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1435, in install
    requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 706, in install
    cwd=self.source_dir, filter_stdout=self._filter_install, show_stdout=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/util.py", line 697, in call_subprocess
    % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
InstallationError: Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-uLEPHb-build/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-hPh8D0-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-uLEPHb-build

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

May be a little late to answer your question but putting my answer could help people later.

I looked backward at the log and saw these lines.

[x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -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
 #include 
                   ^
compilation terminated.

It turned out that it couldn't find Python.h. Installing python2.7-dev fixed the problem for me.

apt-get install -y python2.7-dev

Comments

[TheBurgerShot]

Fixed it for me too

[securecurve]

apt-get install -y python3-dev also for python3 environments

[Marc]

I'm using Anaconda for python 3. I had the same error as the OP (caused by 'LTO version') and it turned out that I had to install different compilers: conda install gxx_linux-64 and then I could do pip install uwsgi successfully

[BIOHAZARD]

In some cases yum install gcc python36-devel