talib/_ta_lib.c:747:10: fatal error: ta-lib/ta_defs.h: No such file or directory

If you are installing ta-lib for Python and get this error then you can normally solve it by manually getting the ta-lib source files and compiling.

tar -zxvf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz

cd ta-lib;./configure;make;make install

Collecting ta-lib Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/39/6f/6acaee2eac6afb2cc6a2adcb294080577f9983fbd2726395b9047c4e13ec/TA-Lib-0.4.26.tar.gz (272kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 276kB 1.6MB/s Collecting numpy (from ta-lib) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/45/b2/6c7545bb7a38754d63048c7696804a0d947328125d81bf12beaa692c3ae3/numpy-1.19.5-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl Building wheels for collected packages: ta-lib Running setup.py bdist_wheel for ta-lib ... error Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-9wklnwce/ta-lib/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmp2lq2a7a3pip-wheel- --python-tag cp36: /tmp/pip-build-9wklnwce/ta-lib/setup.py:77: UserWarning: Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail. warnings.warn('Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail.') running bdist_wheel running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6 creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_stream.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_func.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/abstract.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_polars.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/stream.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_pandas.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_abstract.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/deprecated.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_data.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib running build_ext building 'talib._ta_lib' extension creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/include -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/homebrew/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/ta-lib/include -I/home/theuseruseruser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c talib/_ta_lib.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib/_ta_lib.o talib/_ta_lib.c:747:10: fatal error: ta-lib/ta_defs.h: No such file or directory #include "ta-lib/ta_defs.h" ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Failed building wheel for ta-lib Running setup.py clean for ta-lib Failed to build ta-lib Installing collected packages: numpy, ta-lib Running setup.py install for ta-lib ... error Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-9wklnwce/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 /tmp/pip-sczgom82-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=: /tmp/pip-build-9wklnwce/ta-lib/setup.py:77: UserWarning: Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail. warnings.warn('Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail.') running install /home/theuseruseruser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py:37: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools. setuptools.SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning, running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6 creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_stream.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_func.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/abstract.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_polars.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/stream.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_pandas.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_abstract.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/deprecated.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib copying talib/test_data.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib running build_ext building 'talib._ta_lib' extension creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/include -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/homebrew/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/ta-lib/include -I/home/theuseruseruser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c talib/_ta_lib.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/talib/_ta_lib.o talib/_ta_lib.c:747:10: fatal error: ta-lib/ta_defs.h: No such file or directory #include "ta-lib/ta_defs.h" ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-9wklnwce/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 /tmp/pip-sczgom82-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-9wklnwce/ta-lib/