Python On Windows - Compiling

Like many before me I don´t succeed in installing a few Python packages (mysql, pycld2, etc.) on Windows. I have a Windows 8 machine, 64-bit, and Python 3.4. At first I got the we

Solution 1:

I have faced the exact same issues for Python 2.7 on 64 bit Windows trying to install pycld2.

Tried many methods like installing VS express 2008, MingW, etc and it just doesnt work.

What saved me is this link: https://github.com/aboSamoor/polyglot/issues/11

The proposed solution is to download the binaries from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and pip install .whl

The cpXX denotes the version of python. So in my case, I used cp27.

Hope it helps

Solution 2:

I would recommend installing Ubuntu (as a Ubuntu user), you can dual-boot. However, that isn't an answer.

MySQLClient (the fork for Python3) is available a precompiled binary from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysqlclient

Try to find precompiled binaries for simplicity sake. As far as troubleshooting the install goes, I've tried the recommend VC Studio 9.0 on fresh installs and it cannot find stdint.h (which, like yours, suggests it's more than broken).

Solution 3:

You could try http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads for Windows. I t includes compiled binaries, avoiding the need for a C complier.

Solution 4:

I grew frustrated with trying to get python and other packages to compile/play nicely on Windows as well. Switching over to Ubuntu was a breath of fresh air, for sure.

The win32com package is made specifically for Windows hosts, so that could not longer be used, but there are other ways to achieve the same thing in Ubuntu.

Are you trying to target Windows specifically? What are you using win32com for?

Solution 5:

Looks like you're missing MySQL dev package. Another StackOverflow question has the details. But if I were you, I'd go the route Alexander Huszagh recommended and get my precompiled binaries from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysqlclient