Installing Python modules on windows

Question

I'm trying to install Swish-E,but unfortunately a windows installer is not present so I'm trying to install it via the console (under Windows 7) but i keep on getting the same error, and i get this error on every module i try to install

C:\Users\Mg\Downloads\pysqlite-2.5.6\pysqlite-2.5.6>python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'pysqlite2._sqlite' extension
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W
3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -DMODULE_NAME=\"pysqlite2.dbapi2\" -DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION=
1 -IC:\Python26\include -IC:\Python26\PC /Tcsrc/module.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.6
\Release\src/module.obj
module.c
c:\users\mg\downloads\pysqlite-2.5.6\pysqlite-2.5.6\src\connection.h(
33) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sqlite3.h': No such file or
directory
error: command '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe"' failed with exit status 2

I've tried installing it from cygwin too but that gave me the same problem.

I know it has something to do with Visual Studio's C compiler or an environment variable but I have not been able to find anything on the web.

Answer 1

The problem is that you don't have the sqlite headers. You can find them over at sqlite.org. Anyway, why are you trying to install pysqlite?? It is included in Python 2.5 and newer.

Installers for Python 2.x can be found here, by the way. So you don't need to compile it yourself.

Oh, and you're trying to build sqlite instead of Swish-E if you didn't notice. Swish-E binaries are here.

Answer 2

At swish-e download page there are Windows binaries.

Windows Users

A Windows binary version is available as a separate download from the Swish-e site (http://swish-e.org). Many of the installation instructions below will not apply to Windows users; the Windows version is pre-compiled and includes libxml2, zlib, xpdf, and catdoc.