How can I install GRPCIO on an Apple M1 Silicon

The M1 chip is really fast and can speed up your development process due to the build speed, but sadly some of the packages are not supported or may require some kind of a hack to successfully install.

Here is how i resolved failing python package installation due to grpcio error below

Error to be resolved

Run the following commands

export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=1
export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1

And once I did the above, I was able to successfully install the package that was failing. I figured I could also install grpcio without issues

pip install grpcio

I hope this helped, for further details I found this github thread helpful

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/25082