Error installing Python packages on Apple Silicon (M1)

[mattstratton]

When I was trying to create a boilerplate Pulumi project with python (pulumi new python) there are errors when building the packages.

specifically:

Building wheels for collected packages: grpcio
  Building wheel for grpcio (setup.py) ... -

[mattstratton]

The good news is, this is an easy fix.

Set two environment variables:

export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=1
export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1

and you are good to go!

(source: grpc/grpc#25082 (comment))

[nimbinatus]

Note that, as of version 1.39.0, grpcio is good to go on M1 without any env variable adjustments: grpc/grpc#25082. Pulumi's package is pulling in the newest version, so double-check your dependencies on any older virtual envs.

[palladius]

As per grpc/grpc#30723
this finally worked for me: @gnossen , Just an update. I fixed this by updating my python to 3.10.6

What I did is:

# still no python in my path so I forced it this way
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3  -m venv venv-m1
venv-m1/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

I also updated my package to remind myself for other computers:

name: blahblah-python
description: A minimal Google Cloud Python Pulumi program
runtime:
    name: python
    options:
        # /opt/homebrew/bin/python3  -m venv venv-m1
        # venv-m1/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
        # sul Mac M1 :)
        virtualenv: venv-m1