installing libxml2 on python 2.7 windows

Question

I've searched but theres no libxml2 binaries for py2.7.

I have also tried running setup.py for version py2.6.9 but it gave me the error

failed to find headers for libxml2: update includes_dir

Does anyone have a solution?

I believe you mean the libxml2-python bindings version 2.6.9, not Python version 2.6.9. — ewall
– ewall, Commented Aug 19, 2010 at 13:41
In order to compile that from source on Windows, you will need a valid C compiler, libxml2 development headers, and more... which is not likely to work. Like @MattH, I too would steer you towards using lxml instead, which you can probably install with only the command easy_install lxml. — ewall
– ewall, Commented Aug 19, 2010 at 13:45
@ewall: Sadly it's not that easy to install lxml on windows, there are library dependencies and compiling to be done. I found a lxml-build.py script from a post somewhere or other, then I had to install VisualStudio as the build with mingw32 failed. After doing all this today I thought I might try to contribute the hard-won binary to pypi, but I'm getting funny errors and I've just about lost patience with trying today. — MattH
– MattH, Commented Aug 19, 2010 at 14:20
@ewall, I have tried lxml with easy_install but was not successful/ Forgot whats the error.. Have switched to 2.6 lest more such errors occur after this. — goh
– goh, Commented Aug 20, 2010 at 4:53

Jack Bahou · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-29 21:23:13Z

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Some time before I found a good page with prebuilt libraries for different versions of python and arch: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

I suspect it will be useful for you.

Jack Bahou

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answered Nov 22, 2010 at 14:23

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