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

I use virtualenv and virtualenv wrapper, and so I wanted this to be self contained. I got gevent working like so:

Assuming you have virtual env setup, then:

workon {my_virtual_env}

Then download libevent and install it against the virtualenv.

curl -L -O https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz

tar -xzf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
./configure --prefix="$VIRTUAL_ENV"
make && make install

I'm assuming you've got gcc 5+ installed (I use brew)

Hope this helps.