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When I try to install lxml for python 3.5 on Windows 10 by using pip install lxml I get the error message as follows:

"b" 'xslt-config' is nor recognized as an external or internal command, 
\r\noperable program or batch file.\r\n" ** make sure the developement 
packages of libxml2 and libxslt are installed **

The problem is I cannot figure out how to install libxml2 since the setup files for libxml2 return "failed to find headers for libxml2: update includes_dir"

Any suggestions on how I fix these issues?

Marcs
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foshizzle
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  • some libraries may need C/C++ `*.h` files with headers - to compile code. So probably you need source code or at least `libxml2-dev` with `*.h` files. – furas Oct 28 '16 at 10:09

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You can't compile lxml from sources without having the dependent libs avaiable to link against, and a working toolchain (which requires a matching version of Visual Studio on windows for your python version)

download a pre-compiled binary wheel from here.

Install it with pip:

pip install path-to-lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
OmerBA
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