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Hello,

I am attempting to install libxml2 so that I can setup the python bindings and eventually use lxml.

However I am unable to work out here on earth I am supposed to be unzipping the files. I haven't been able to google successfully.

Do I need Cygwin/MinGW for the installation to be successful?

At the moment I have the files from the libxml2.tar.gz and libxslt.tar.gz in their respective directories within my Python folder. So files that were in the tars under include are in Python26\include\libxml2\libxml... and so on.

however when i run a easy_install lxml i receive the following output:

Searching for lxml
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/lxml/
Reading http://codespeak.net/lxml
Best match: lxml 2.2.4
Downloading http://codespeak.net/lxml/lxml-2.2.4.tgz
Processing lxml-2.2.4.tgz
Running lxml-2.2.4\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\rocco\appdata\local
\temp\easy_install-1xwbhy\lxml-2.2.4\egg-dist-tmp-9zwhe4
Building lxml version 2.2.4.
NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated 'src/lxml/lxml.etree.c' need
s 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
warning: no files found matching 'lxml.etree.c' under directory 'src\lxml'
warning: no files found matching 'lxml.objectify.c' under directory 'src\lxml'
warning: no files found matching 'lxml.etree.h' under directory 'src\lxml'
warning: no files found matching 'lxml.etree_api.h' under directory 'src\lxml'
warning: no files found matching 'etree_defs.h' under directory 'src\lxml'
warning: no files found matching 'pubkey.asc' under directory 'doc'
warning: no files found matching 'tagpython*.png' under directory 'doc'
error: Setup script exited with error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

Any help whatsoever would be very helpful as I've been trying to get this going for over a week now :(

Thanks

+8  A: 

If you don't have special reasons to compile from source, you can use prebuilt binaries for lxml

S.Mark
Thank you - just saved me a whole load of hassle!
Dominic Rodger
A: 

It appears that the program "xslt-config" is not located in a directory in your PATH environment. Here's an article on setting PATH on Windows:

http://www.cs.usask.ca/~wew036/latex/env.html

AJ
A: 

If you are using python 2.5.x, just use "easy_install lxml==2.2.2" to install

wind Hsu