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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"not compatible with Google Cloud Containers","articleBody":"I'm using the [google/python-runtime](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/google/python-runtime/) Docker image to run an app on Google Managed VMs, and need to access the datastore. The obvious solution seems to be gcloud-python as it's so much easier to use than the datastore python library.\n\nSo here's what happens. In my requirements.txt file I have:\nhttplib2\ntornado\ngcloud\n\nPIP installs everything OK except it fails when installing cffi. Here is a log:\n\n```\nProcessing cffi-0.8.6.tar.gz\n\nWriting /tmp/easy_install-MCEL5F/cryptography-0.6.1/temp/easy_install-ZPcCkB/cffi-0.8.6/setup.cfg\n\nRunning cffi-0.8.6/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-MCEL5F/cryptography-0.6.1/temp/easy_install-ZPcCkB/cffi-0.8.6/egg-dist-tmp-fmCpCO\n\ncompiling '_configtest.c':\n\n__thread int some_threadlocal_variable_42;\n\n\n\ngcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -c _configtest.c -o _configtest.o\n\nsuccess!\n\nremoving: _configtest.c _configtest.o\n\nc/_cffi_backend.c:13:17: fatal error: ffi.h: No such file or directory\n\ncompilation terminated.\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n\n  File \"\u003cstring\u003e\", line 17, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n\n  File \"/env/build/gcloud/setup.py\", line 49, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n\n    'Topic :: Internet',\n\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py\", line 112, in setup\n\n    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py\", line 260, in __init__\n\n    self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs.pop('setup_requires'))\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py\", line 285, in fetch_build_eggs\n\n    replace_conflicting=True\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 631, in resolve\n\n    dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 871, in best_match\n\n    return self.obtain(req, installer)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 883, in obtain\n\n    return installer(requirement)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py\", line 335, in fetch_build_egg\n\n    return cmd.easy_install(req)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 595, in easy_install\n\n    return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 625, in install_item\n\n    dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 822, in install_eggs\n\n    return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 1028, in build_and_install\n\n    self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 1013, in run_setup\n\n    run_setup(setup_script, args)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py\", line 50, in run_setup\n\n    lambda: execfile(\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py\", line 100, in run\n\n    return func()\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py\", line 52, in \u003clambda\u003e\n\n    {'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'}\n\n  File \"setup.py\", line 338, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n\n\n\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py\", line 112, in setup\n\n    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py\", line 260, in __init__\n\n    self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs.pop('setup_requires'))\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py\", line 285, in fetch_build_eggs\n\n    replace_conflicting=True\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 631, in resolve\n\n    dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 871, in best_match\n\n    return self.obtain(req, installer)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py\", line 883, in obtain\n\n    return installer(requirement)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py\", line 335, in fetch_build_egg\n\n    return cmd.easy_install(req)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 595, in easy_install\n\n    return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 625, in install_item\n\n    dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 822, in install_eggs\n\n    return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 1028, in build_and_install\n\n    self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)\n\n  File \"/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py\", line 1016, in run_setup\n\n    raise DistutilsError(\"Setup script exited with %s\" % (v.args[0],))\n\ndistutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1\n\n----------------------------------------\nCleaning up...\nCommand python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /env/build/gcloud\nStoring debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log\n\n```\n\nThis is kind of a road block for me, is there anything that can be done to make it installable on google containers?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/artooro","@type":"Person","name":"artooro"},"datePublished":"2014-11-06T14:49:23.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/348/google-cloud-python/issues/348"}