when I try to install Flask-bcrypt it throws me error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

Question

When I try to install flask-bcrypt library for my app it is throwing me this error:

creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7

creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/bcrypt

x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c bcrypt/bcrypt.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/bcrypt/bcrypt.o

x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c bcrypt/bcrypt_pbkdf.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/bcrypt/bcrypt_pbkdf.o

x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c bcrypt/bcrypt_python.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/bcrypt/bcrypt_python.o

bcrypt/bcrypt_python.c:18:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

 #include "Python.h"
^

compilation terminated.

error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

how to solve it?? -thanks in advance!

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install python-dev

Answer 2

if you find that after installing Python-dev and u having trouble then install the Foreign function interface. thats when i was able to install brypt:

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

Answer 3

Depending on your configuration you might need to install the python3-dev package.

Answer 4

You need python-dev package installed to build Python extensions.

Answer 5

You didn't mention what OS you're using, but you need to have Python-dev installed.

Assuming Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-dev