Issues installing python typedb-client on macOs m1 architecture

When I try to install the python typedb-client using pip, I get several errors concerning grpcio:

Building wheels for collected packages: grpcio
  Building wheel for grpcio (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [21870 lines of output]
      ASM Builds for BoringSSL currently not supported on: macosx-11.1-arm64

as well as many lines of:

...
distutils.errors.CompileError: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
...

This happens both on global installation and in conda environments…

Answer

After searching for grpcio installation issues on the M1 architecture, the solution for me was to prepend the following to the pip command:

export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=1 export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 pip install typedb-client==2.9.0

in some cases, should you see ssl errors, you can extend that command to:

CFLAGS="-I /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/lib" GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=1 GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 pip install typedb-client==2.9.0

assuming that you have openssl install via homebrew. This tells pip where to look for appropriate headers and code to build the grpcio pip package.