Python TA-Lib install problems

Question

Frustratingly having a lot of difficult installing the TA-Lib package in python.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/TA-Lib

I have read through all the forum posts

Answer 1

Download ta-lib-0.4.0-msvc.zip from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-msvc.zip and unzip to C:\ta-lib

This is a 32-bit release. If you want to use 64-bit Python, you will need to build a 64-bit version of the library.

Some unofficial (and unsupported) instructions for building on 64-bit Windows 10, here for reference:

1. Download and Unzip ta-lib-0.4.0-msvc.zip

2. Move the Unzipped Folder ta-lib to C:\

3. Download and Install Visual Studio Community 2015 or 2017 - have to do the big install i'm afraid - no other way

Remember to Select [Visual C++] Feature

4. Build TA-Lib Library - From Windows Start Menu, Start [VS2015 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt]

cd to C:\ta-lib\c\make\cdr\win32\msvc

Build the Library by typing nmake

5. Try installing ta-lib again from pip or pycharm etc...

Answer 2

From https://github.com/mrjbq7/ta-lib:

'This typically means that it can't find the underlying TA-Lib library, a dependency which needs to be installed.'

Install the underlying TA-Lib library first from here: https://www.ta-lib.org/hdr_dw.html

I used the 'ta-lib-0.4.0-msvc.zip' one.

Then download a whl file from: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#ta-lib

I used the 'TA_Lib‑0.4.16‑cp35‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl' one.

I can not definitely remember but I think I lastly ran pip install TA-Lib as well

Answer 3

I faced the same problems trying with Anaconda 5.1.0 and Python 3.6 via Visual Studio.

The solution was to get a wheel from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs, then install it via pip. You need to make sure the wheel matches your python version (in my case, 3.6).

In Anaconda, I just opened a prompt, navigated to where the wheel was, and ran the following: python -m pip install TA_Lib-0.4.17-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

For Visual Studio, it was more obtuse. Go to the Python Environments tab, choose 'Overview' in the dropdown, then `Open in PowerShell'. At that point, run the same command as for ANaconda above.

Answer 4

The following solved the issue I had installing ta-lib for Python:

1.- OS: Windows 10 Python: 2.7, embedded in miniconda. Miniconda: 64 bits (https://conda.io/miniconda). PyCharm 2018.1.4 Community Edition (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/).

2.- You need to convert ta-lib to 64 bits. You can find it already converted in here: https://github.com/afnhsn/TA-Lib_x64 This site also tells you what to do, however there are several steps not included or confusing there that I am explaining here. It is important that you do not just unzip the file 'ta-lib x64.zip' at 'C:\'. Inside the zip file, there is a 'ta-lib' folder. This folder is the one that has to be in 'C:\'

3.- From the same github account, download and execute C++ Build Tools ('en_visual_cpp_build_tools_2015_update_3_x86_x64_8923157.exe')

4.- Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 is required. Get it from http://aka.ms/vcpython27 You must download and install it, in case you don't already have it.

5.- Inside your python environment, run "pip install ta-lib".

This worked for me, I hope this info is useful for you.

Note: At the time, there is no TA-lib developed for Python 3.x, that is why I used Python 2.7