Hey, new user here!

I'm trying to set up WiredTiger in a conda environment (what my team uses for env management). My first attempt looked like this:

conda create -n wtscratch python=3.9 -c conda-forge
conda activate wtscratch
conda install snappy zstd zlib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/lib
pip install wiredtiger

This fails with the error: "error: WiredTiger requires a 64-bit build." (apparently from here). The OS is 64 bit, but I'm guessing somehow the compiler is only allocating 32 bit pointers? I was unable to figure out how to use CFLAGS to get the compiler to use 64-bit pointers.

My second attempt was following the full build instructions here:

conda create -n wtscratch python=3.9 -c conda-forge
conda activate wtscratch
conda install snappy zstd zlib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CONDA_PREFIX/lib
git clone git://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger.git
conda install cmake ninja
mkdir wiredtiger/build
cd wiredtiger/build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$CONDA_PREFIX -G Ninja ../.
ninja
ninja install

This seems to succeed, but then I don't have the Python API installed, and when I pip install wiredtiger as above, I run into the same 64-bit issue.

Is there a way to get around the above issues?

Thanks for any info!