Lesson 4 :Errors while installing web3 (MacOS) (SOLVED)

[JamiDEV]

Not sure where to begin as I'm still pretty confused as to what's going on.

this is the second error at the bottom list of red

[cromewar]

It seems the problem is you don't have a C compiler on your machine, the compiler you should use is gcc which actually gets installed with xcode.

Try to follow this instructions: https://mkyong.com/mac/how-to-install-gcc-compiler-on-mac-os-x/

[JamiDEV]

I'll give it a try thank you

[PatrickAlphaC]

Can you please post the text of the error and not the image?

[JamiDEV]

yes, I can do that for the next error I experience, my apologies.

[JamiDEV]

I did have to install a slew of things for a simple fix, however, Xcode command-line tools and the web3 virtual environments were recommended installs anyway.

the Cython package was the last, I think that's what was missing. look at the top image, working from the bottom upward, count 6 lines and you'll see it says Cython not installed. lol, that was it. for me.

[cromewar]

Yeah that's why I recommended installing gcc because cython needs it as compiler, did you solve the problem tough?

[JamiDEV]

Yes, after the GCC install and then a Cython install I was able to resolve this issue.

[PatrickAlphaC]

Perfect! Can you post the link you used to do this?

[JamiDEV]

As cromewar mentioned earlier, you must have an Apple ID to get dev privileges, and then you can follow the link he provided.

https://mkyong.com/mac/how-to-install-gcc-compiler-on-mac-os-x/

You can then use Cython. org documentation to install cython.
https://docs.cython.org/en/latest/src/quickstart/install.html

[PatrickAlphaC]

boom!