How can I install the Python library 'gevent' on Mac OS X Lion

Question

Python library gevent, version 0.13.6 (the current version on PyPI) will not pip install on OS X Lion, Python 2.7 (and probably others.) It works f

Answer 1

After a while, I realized that the paths for the CFLAGS variable mentioned above works when installing libevent from port, but not from brew. The following worked for me (on OSX Mavericks):

$ brew install libevent
$ export CFLAGS="-I /usr/local/Cellar/libevent/2.0.21/include -L /usr/local/Cellar/libevent/2.0.21/lib"
$ pip install gevent