Trouble Installing TA-Lib in Python 3.7

Question

I am trying to install TA-Lib for Python 3.7. I've already read through a number of solutions, but have come to a point I can't figure out. Here is the message I get from pip:

Collecting ta-lib
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/90/05/d4c6a778d7a7de0be366bc4a850b4ffaeac2abad927f95fa8ba6f355a082/TA-Lib-0.4.17.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in c:\python37_64\lib\site-packages (from ta-lib) (1.15.4)
Installing collected packages: ta-lib
  Running setup.py install for ta-lib: started
Command "c:\python37_64\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Todd\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-0c2__0gf\\ta-lib\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Todd\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-3dpfanca\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Todd\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0c2__0gf\ta-lib\
    Running setup.py install for ta-lib: finished with status 'error'
    Complete output from command c:\python37_64\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Todd\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-0c2__0gf\\ta-lib\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Todd\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-3dpfanca\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    C:\Users\Todd\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0c2__0gf\ta-lib\setup.py:79: UserWarning: Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail.
      warnings.warn('Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail.')
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.7
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\abstract.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\deprecated.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\stream.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\test_abstract.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\test_data.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\test_func.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\test_pandas.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\test_stream.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    copying talib\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\talib
    running build_ext
    building 'talib._ta_lib' extension
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.7
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.7\Release
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.7\Release\talib
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -Ic:\python37_64\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include -Ic:\ta-lib\c\include -Ic:\python37_64\include -Ic:\python37_64\include "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\cppwinrt" /Tctalib/_ta_lib.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.7\Release\talib/_ta_lib.obj
    _ta_lib.c
    talib/_ta_lib.c(524): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ta_libc.h': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.16.27023\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

    ----------------------------------------
FINISHED

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is what works for me...

Download TA_Lib-0.4.10-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl from here And use command pip install TA_Lib-0.4.10-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

I was using Conda4 with python 3.6 64 bit version.

Another way also you can try

To install Ta-Lib with Python 3.6+, Windows 64 bit use this pip install -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/masdeseiscaracteres/simple ta-lib

Answer 2

The root cause of the error is probably because you haven't installed actual TA-Lib library which is written in C. Note that the python lib is just a wrapper on top of the actual library. So in order to have python wrapper successfully installed, you'll need to install its prerequisite (the actual TA-Lib).

See https://github.com/mrjbq7/ta-lib#dependencies for more details.

From above reference (for ease of access) :

Installing actual TA-Lib (prerequisite for python wrapper) :

Windows

1. Download ta-lib-0.4.0-msvc.zip and unzip to C:\ta-lib

2. Move the Unzipped Folder ta-lib to C:\

3. Download and Install Visual Studio Community 2015 if already not installed (Remember to Select [Visual C++] Feature)

4. open x64 Native Tools Command Prompt

5. navigate to C:\ta-lib\c\make\cdr\win32\msvc

6. type nmake (this command builds the library)

Linux

$ tar -xzf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
$ cd ta-lib/
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

Mac OS X

$ brew install ta-lib

If you are using a M1 laptop and Homebrew, then you can set these before installing:

export TA_INCLUDE_PATH="$(brew --prefix ta-lib)/include"
export TA_LIBRARY_PATH="$(brew --prefix ta-lib)/lib"

Hint : It seems, by default, the setup.py reads actual library files from C:\ta-lib (in Windows) and /usr (in Linux). so if you move the downloaded zip file to another location and extract it there (for Windows) or set ./configure --prefix to any location other than /usr (for Linux), then you would have to set TA_LIBRARY_PATH and TA_INCLUDE_PATH environment variables to your desired locations.

If you installed the underlying TA-Lib library with a custom prefix (e.g., with ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX), then when you go to install this python wrapper you can specify additional search paths to find the library and include files for the underlying TA-Lib library using the TA_LIBRARY_PATH and TA_INCLUDE_PATH environment variables:

$ export TA_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
$ export TA_INCLUDE_PATH=$PREFIX/include
$ python setup.py install # or pip install ta-lib