install dependencies issue (raspi)

[glassbase]

I run pip3 install -r requirements.txt and get (also tried with sudo)

Collecting python-lirc==1.2.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/20/37/5614ed0459439a96430e1aac479b6608b51e69ca0bd7d91277517d5895e9/python-lirc-1.2.3.tar.gz
Collecting paho-mqtt==1.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/paho-mqtt/paho_mqtt-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl
Building wheels for collected packages: python-lirc
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-lirc ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-48kj4bye/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpmm8tstinpip-wheel- --python-tag cp35:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'lirc' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-armv6l-3.5
  creating build/temp.linux-armv6l-3.5/lirc
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/python3.5-6waWnr/python3.5-3.5.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.5m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv6l-3.5/lirc/lirc.o
  lirc/lirc.c:276:30: fatal error: lirc/lirc_client.h: No such file or directory
   #include "lirc/lirc_client.h"
                                ^
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for python-lirc
  Running setup.py clean for python-lirc
Failed to build python-lirc
Installing collected packages: python-lirc, paho-mqtt
  Found existing installation: python-lirc 1.2.1
    Not uninstalling python-lirc at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
  Running setup.py install for python-lirc ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-48kj4bye/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zwiaan5i-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'lirc' extension
    creating build
    creating build/temp.linux-armv6l-3.5
    creating build/temp.linux-armv6l-3.5/lirc
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/python3.5-6waWnr/python3.5-3.5.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.5m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv6l-3.5/lirc/lirc.o
    lirc/lirc.c:276:30: fatal error: lirc/lirc_client.h: No such file or directory
     #include "lirc/lirc_client.h"
                                  ^
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
  Can't rollback python-lirc, nothing uninstalled.
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-48kj4bye/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zwiaan5i-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-48kj4bye/python-lirc/

Any idea what is wrong? Thanks for your help.

[glassbase]

Maybe because I am on Raspbian Stretch?

[glassbase]

I switched to using docker to this to work.