Railway•13mo ago

Django app deployment crashes due to cffi and libffi

Trying to deploy a Django app to Railway. After it builds successfully the deployment crashes with this error:

#10 378.9         Running setup.py install for cffi: started
#10 378.9         Running setup.py install for cffi: finished with status 'error'
#10 378.9         error: subprocess-exited-with-error
#10 378.9
#10 378.9         × Running setup.py install for cffi did not run successfully.
#10 378.9         │ exit code: 1
#10 378.9         ╰─> [60 lines of output]
#10 378.9             Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
#10 378.9             Perhaps you should add the directory containing

libffi.pc' #10 378.9 to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable #10 378.9 No package 'libffi' found`

69 Replies

Percy•13mo ago

Project ID: 4ad98339-d4b3-47d9-973d-7162b5b5fd9f

lionel•13mo ago

4ad98339-d4b3-47d9-973d-7162b5b5fd9f

Brody•13mo ago

please provide full build logs https://bookmarklets.up.railway.app/log-downloader/

ThallesComH•13mo ago

cool tool brody

Brody•13mo ago

thamks

lionel•13mo ago

build_logs_web_16941...

lionel•13mo ago

there was attempt as well.

lionel•13mo ago

build_logs_web_16941...

deployment_logs_web_...

lionel•13mo ago

mysqlclient is in the requirements.txt

Brody•13mo ago

it wants MySQLdb though

lionel•13mo ago

thanks that fixed that one what about the cffi error in this log?

lionel•13mo ago

build_logs_web_16943...

Brody•13mo ago

send your railway.json please

lionel•13mo ago

railway.json

Brody•13mo ago

give this a try

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.up.railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "providers": ["python"],
      "phases": {
        "setup": {
          "nixPkgs": ["...", "nodejs", "libffi"]
        },
        "ci": {
          "dependsOn": ["setup"],
          "cmds": ["npm ci"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "deploy": {
    "numReplicas": 1,
    "startCommand": "python3 manage.py migrate && python3 manage.py collectstatic --no-input && gunicorn readinghood.wsgi",
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 10
  }
}

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.up.railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "providers": ["python"],
      "phases": {
        "setup": {
          "nixPkgs": ["...", "nodejs", "libffi"]
        },
        "ci": {
          "dependsOn": ["setup"],
          "cmds": ["npm ci"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "deploy": {
    "numReplicas": 1,
    "startCommand": "python3 manage.py migrate && python3 manage.py collectstatic --no-input && gunicorn readinghood.wsgi",
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 10
  }
}

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