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As of now, `setup.py --static --static-deps' fails with:

No need to pass "--static" as well.

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Retrieving "ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/zlib-1.2.5.win32.zip" to "libs\zlib-1.2.5.win32.zip" Unpacking zlib-1.2.5.win32.zip into libs Traceback (most recent call last): <...> File "C:\Users\native_api\Documents\lxml\buildlibxml.py", line 47, in download_and_extract_zlatkovic_binaries d = unpack_zipfile(destfile, destdir) File "C:\Users\native_api\Documents\lxml\buildlibxml.py", line 62, in unpack_zipfile assert os.path.exists(edir), 'missing: %s' % edir AssertionError: missing: libs\zlib-1.2.5.win32

The reason is that the top level dir in ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/zlib-1.2.5.win32.zip is `zlib-1.2.5', not `zlib-1.2.5.win32' as unpack_zipfile() expects.

The patch provided autodetectes the top dir name in downloaded files which fixes the issue.

Thanks. I've rewritten your patch to also work in Py2.4:

https://github.com/lxml/lxml/commit/930371bd85dff98a2dda9aab5d4e2f7938248410

Could you please test it? And then also run the test suite?

There are 3 failures: test_dtd_parse_file_not_found test_resolve_filename_dtd_relative test_xslt_resolver_url_building Output (with test list removed at moderator's insistence) is attached.

Is that all you had to change to get it running for you?

I also had to insert http://msinttypes.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stdint.h to VC9.0's include dir so it compiled (as suggested @ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/126279/c99-stdint-h-header-and-ms-visual-...).

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Though the site's maintainer probably needs to fix the root cause too.

That would be good, yes.

Stefan