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Python

Posted by askariabdurrahman
askariabdurrahman
1,610 Points

Scrapy not installing on mac

Recently I have upgraded to OS X El Capitan and pip has not been working. I have tried to install scrapy but I keep getting this error: 

/usr/bin/clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch i386 -g -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/usr/include/ffi -I/usr/include/libffi -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c c/_cffi_backend.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.5-fat-2.7/c/_cffi_backend.o
c/_cffi_backend.c:13:10: fatal error: 'ffi.h' file not found
#include <ffi.h>
         ^
1 error generated.
error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit status 1

Command "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/private/var/folders/f0/10yryp6j5zd999fwkvbnb5hm0000gn/T/pip-build-1o9scz/cffi/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/f0/10yryp6j5zd999fwkvbnb5hm0000gn/T/pip-gAwCJJ-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/f0/10yryp6j5zd999fwkvbnb5hm0000gn/T/pip-build-1o9scz/cffi