Pip Installation Error - Command python setup.py e

Question

I have just installed Python 2.7.5 on a Windows 7 (32-bit) box.

When trying to install Scrapy module via the Windows console I get the below error:

Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in c:\users\compaq\app
data\local\temp\pip_build_COMPAQ\pyOpenSSL
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\COMPAQ\pip\pip.log

I have read other threads on this, suggesting that setup tools be re-installed or updated. I have already attempted this (the latest setup tools exist) but the scrapy install error remains.

The below is the full install script and failure:

  C:\Windows\system32>pip install scrapy
  Downloading/unpacking scrapy
    Running setup.py (path:c:\users\compaq\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_COMPAQ\scr
  apy\setup.py) egg_info for package scrapy

      no previously-included directories found matching 'docs\build'
  Downloading/unpacking Twisted>=10.0.0 (from scrapy)
  Downloading/unpacking w3lib>=1.2 (from scrapy)
    Downloading w3lib-1.5.tar.gz
    Running setup.py (path:c:\users\compaq\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_COMPAQ\w3l
  ib\setup.py) egg_info for package w3lib

  Downloading/unpacking queuelib (from scrapy)
    Downloading queuelib-1.1.1.tar.gz
    Running setup.py (path:c:\users\compaq\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_COMPAQ\que
  uelib\setup.py) egg_info for package queuelib

  Downloading/unpacking lxml (from scrapy)
    Running setup.py (path:c:\users\compaq\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_COMPAQ\lxm
  l\setup.py) egg_info for package lxml
      Building lxml version 3.3.0.
      Building without Cython.
      ERROR: 'xslt-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
      operable program or batch file.

      ** make sure the development packages of libxml2 and libxslt are installed *
  *

      Using build configuration of libxslt
      C:\HACK\Python\lib\distutils\dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution
  option: 'bugtrack_url'
        warnings.warn(msg)

      warning: no previously-included files found matching '*.py'
  Downloading/unpacking pyOpenSSL (from scrapy)
    Running setup.py (path:c:\users\compaq\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_COMPAQ\pyO
  penSSL\setup.py) egg_info for package pyOpenSSL

      error: Only found improper OpenSSL directories: ['C:\\RUBY\\RailsInstaller\\
  Git']
      Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
      running egg_info

  creating pip-egg-info\pyOpenSSL.egg-info

  writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info\pyOpenSSL.egg-info\dependency_links.txt


  writing pip-egg-info\pyOpenSSL.egg-info\PKG-INFO

  writing top-level names to pip-egg-info\pyOpenSSL.egg-info\top_level.txt

  writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info\pyOpenSSL.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'

  warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found



  error: Only found improper OpenSSL directories: ['C:\\RUBY\\RailsInstaller\\Git'
  ]

  ----------------------------------------
  Cleaning up...
  Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in c:\users\compaq\app
  data\local\temp\pip_build_COMPAQ\pyOpenSSL
  Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\COMPAQ\pip\pip.log

Answer 1

pip tries to build packages from source. So you'll need development headers for libraries and VS2008 compiler, all of which is rather painful to set up.

It's easier to download prebuilt binaries for failed packages from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

And then retry installing scrapy.