Could not build wheels for fastecdsa

[BalogunMalikO]

How can I use bitcoinlib on macbook? I get this error evrytime i try to pip install bitcoinlib

[AlexOQ]

The root cause is with fastecdsa package, the fix should come from them. But also, would be nice to have bitcoinlib version w/o this dependency (if possible), in case fastecdsa team takes their time.

EDIT:
OS: Linux pop-os 6.2.6-76060206-generic #202303130630~1681329778~22.04~d824cd4
Poetry: 1.4.2
Python: 3.10.6

[fled-dev]

Hi,
I had this error too. To fix that, simply run this command: sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev.

Helped for me at least. Let me know if you need any help / it does not work.

[fled-dev]

By the way, this is not an issue only with MacBooks. I also had this issue on my Ubuntu 23.04 server.

[mccwdev]

You need to install some required packages first before installing Bitcoinlib, see https://github.com/1200wd/bitcoinlib#pre-requirements-linux.

I did not run into any errors when installing on Ubuntu server 23.04

[superggn]

try use a virtual environment and change the cache dir

python3 -m venv <the path you want to store the virtual environment>

pip install --cache-dir ~/<specify any temp cache dir> bitcoinlib

works for me

[Juniorduc44]

Safely work within a python environment

First navigate to where you want to create the python environment on linux or Windows

python3 -m venv venvLinux

python -m venv venvWindows

Second activate the environment on Linux or Windows

source venvLinux/bin/activate

venvWindows\Scripts\activate

Upgrades & Installs

Upgrade pip and install on Linux & Windows

pip install --upgrade pip

pip install wheel

Lastly, install fastecdsa

python -m pip install fastecdsa

Deactivate the python environment with the following

deactivate

[Juniorduc44]

After all that i was able to successfully pip install bitcoinlib