Error installing scrapy on Mac Os X 10.6

Question

Trying to install Scrapy on Mac OSX 10.6 using this guide:

When running these commands from Terminal:

cd libxml2-2.7.3/python
sudo make install

I get the following error:

Making install in .
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../libxslt/libxslt.la', needed by `libxsltmod.la'.  Stop.
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Following the first steps in the Guide, which involved building and installing the libxml2 and libxslt packages seemed to be successful...

Answer 1

The simplest approach is to use MacPorts to install python and the libraries you need.

Answer 2

Credit to @Ned Deily

These steps seem to work if you want to run Scrapy 0.8 on OS X 10.6. It uses Macports install of Python 2.6 rather than the one bundled with the OS. Steps assume Macports is not installed yet.

Get latest MacPorts installer from here and install:

http://www.macports.org/install.php

sudo port install py26-libxml2 py26-twisted py26-openssl py26-simplejson py26-setuptools python_select

sudo /opt/local/bin/easy_install-2.6 scrapy

Change your ~.profile to:

export     PATH=/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH