Mailman 3 July 2012 - lxml - The Python XML Toolkit

easy_install command to install windows prebuilt binary still results in attempt to compile
by Taras D 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Hi, I'm trying to run the command easy_install --allow-hosts=lxml.de,*.python.org lxml==2.2.2 as described under 'ms windows' at http://lxml.de/installation.html, but it still looks like easy install tries to build the source (and fails): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Taras@Taras-PC /cygdrive/f/taras/programming/goparcel/venv/Scripts $ easy_install --allow-hosts=lxml.de,*.python.org lxml==2.2.2 Searching for lxml==2.2.2 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/lxml/ Link to http://codespeak.net/lxml ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Reading http://lxml.de/ Link to http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/branch/lxml-1.2#egg=lxml-1.2bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to https://github.com/lxml/lxml/tarball/master#egg=lxml-dev ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to https://github.com/lxml/lxml/tarball/lxml-2.3#egg=lxml-2.3bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/branch/lxml-1.3#egg=lxml-1.3bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/branch/lxml-2.2#egg=lxml-2.2bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/branch/lxml-2.0#egg=lxml-2.0bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/branch/lxml-1.1#egg=lxml-1.1bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/branch/lxml-2.1#egg=lxml-2.1bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to https://github.com/lxml/lxml-maintenance/tarball/lxml-2.2#egg=lxml-2.2bugfix ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Link to http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk#egg=lxml-dev ***BLOCKED*** by --allow-hosts Best match: lxml 2.2.2 Downloading http://lxml.de/files/lxml-2.2.2.tgz Processing lxml-2.2.2.tgz Running lxml-2.2.2\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\taras\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-uex0uk\lxml-2.2.2\egg-dist -tmp-nnl0x5 Building lxml version 2.2.2. NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated 'src/lxml/lxml.etree.c' needs to be available. ERROR: 'xslt-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. ** make sure the development packages of libxml2 and libxslt are installed ** Using build configuration of libxslt error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed: Invalid argument ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I get similar problems when trying to reference the URL of the egg file on pypi, as described at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1904752/install-libxml2-and-associated-p… . What do I need to do so that easy_install just uses the prebuilt binaries? Thanks Taras

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