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

In case you install all from sources and use csh the following works on mac os 10.9

1. download latest stable http://libevent.org/ libevent-2.0.21-stable

   • ./configure
   • make
   • sudo make install

2. virtualenv env

3. source env/bin/activate.csh

4. setenv CFLAGS "-I /usr/local/include -L /usr/local/lib"

5. pip install gevent