Installing a python module on windows

Question

Hi, so i tried asking this question before but i seemed to word it wrongly

I am trying to install a module called Swish-E 0.5 and for some reason im getting an error when running the command

python setup.py install

i keep getting this error no matter what module i try to install. Ive tried installing other modules to see if the problem lay in that specific module however it does not.

c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W
3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -IC:\Python26\include -IC:\P
ython26\PC /TcSwishE.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.6\Release\SwishE.obj
SwishE.c
SwishE.c(35) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'swish-e.h': No such
 file or directory
error: command '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe"' fa
iled with exit status 2

This is the error DOS keeps dumping, no matter what module. Unfortunately i cannot find the binary file for the module i need therefore i must fix this problem.

I have a feeling it is something to do with my C compiler if someone could please help it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I you haven't already, install Swish-e. If you have, then grab the development files from the source tarball and put them somewhere the compiler can find them.

Answer 2

Search your hard disk for the file swish-e.h and make sure the directory is mentioned in the command line after a -I (= add include path).

Answer 3

You probably need to install/compile Swish-e itself before building Python module for it. Also missing header points to this cause - the Python module uses Swish-e library and headers.

Answer 4

Why is setuptools module trying to access any applications from VS 2008 installation?

Do you run the command from the VS command line or regular command line? If latter, try to temporarily exclude VS 2008 directories from your PATH environment variable.