title: Installing py-ldap on Mac OS X Mavericks (missing sasl.h)
body: <p>I can't seem to be able to get the python ldap module installed on my OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 machine.</p>
  
  <p>Kernel details:
  uname -a
  Darwin  13.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64</p>
  
  <p>I tried what was suggested here:
  <a href="http://projects.skurfer.com/posts/2011/python_ldap_lion/" rel="noreferrer">http://projects.skurfer.com/posts/2011/python_ldap_lion/</a></p>
  
  <p>But when I try to use pip I get a different error </p>
  
  <p>Modules/LDAPObject.c:18:10: fatal error: 'sasl.h' file not found</p>
  
  <p>*#include sasl.h</p>
  
  <p>I also tried what was suggested here:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6475118/python-ldap-os-x-10-6-and-python-2-6">python-ldap OS X 10.6 and Python 2.6</a></p>
  
  <p>But with the same error.</p>
  
  <p>I am hoping someone could help me out here.</p>