TA-Lib Install Error

Question

I am trying to install TA-Lib on Debian Jessie using pip. However I am encountering the following error:

#include "ta-lib/ta_defs.h"
                            ^
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

That is just a small bit of the error. I have tried as this post mentioned installing the following packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config python-opengl python-imaging python-pyrex python-pyside.qtopengl idle-python2.7 qt4-dev-tools qt4-designer libqtgui4 libqtcore4 libqt4-xml libqt4-test libqt4-script libqt4-network libqt4-dbus python-qt4 python-qt4-gl libgle3 python-dev

sudo easy_install greenlet

sudo easy_install gevent

without much luck. I am using python 3.4 on a VPS if that makes a difference. Any ideas on how I can solve this issue? Thanks

Answer 1

first, you should download the ta-lib at link: http://ta-lib.org/hdr_dw.html .This is a c lib...

$ untar and cd
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

After this, you can input : pip install ta-lib , Successfully!

Answer 2

You can try to do ./configure --prefix=$VIRTUALENV and this will create files in your virtual env's include bin and lib folders, but after subsequently running pip3 install TA-Lib the same error as before still occurs...if you figure this out please let me know! :)

Answer 3

I also had several errors while installing ta-lib (on windows), I managed to install it using conda:

conda install -c quantopian ta-lib=0.4.9

Although the installation was successful, no candle patterns where recognized.
The solution was to install python 32 bits and then pip install ta-lib, after this, the candle patterns show up.
As a side note, ta-lib for windows only have binaries built for 32-bit
Make sure you follow the Installation-Directions