'gcc' failed during pandas build on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question

Getting the following error when trying to install Pandas (0.16.0), which is in my requirements.txt file, on AWS Elastic Beanstalk EC2 instance:

building 'pandas.msgpack' extension

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -D__LITTLE_ENDIAN__=1 -Ipandas/src/klib -Ipandas/src -I/opt/python/run/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c pandas/msgpack.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/pandas/msgpack.o

gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

I'm running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v1.3.0 running Python 2.7 and previously ran into this same error on a t1.micro instance, which was resolved when I change to an m3.medium, but I'm running an m3.xlarge so can't be a memory issue.

I have also ensured that gcc is installed as a package in .ebextensions/00_gcc.config:

packages:

   yum:

      gcc: []

      gcc-c++: []

Answer 1

If you are compiling pandas on Elastic Beanstalk, then have both gcc-c++ and python-devel[]:

packages:

   yum:

      gcc-c++: []

      python-devel: []

Add your python version with it, for example, python36-devel:[]