Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?

Question

so I'm on Python 3.5.2, I'm trying to install scrapy, it throws an error saying

Failed building wheel for lxml
Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?

So I try installing lxml, it throws the same error. I try installing it from Here, it says:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win32 (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win32

I can install almost nothing with pip. I'm on a Windows 10 machine. Note that it works flawlessly on my ubunto machine.

Solution 1

Try this:

pip install lxml==3.6.0

Solution 2

I tried sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev and that seems to resolve the issue I had.

Comments

[m3nda]

Sure you can apt-get on a W10 machine.

[m3nda]

I am facing same problem with libxml2 (for mtmproxy install), and even if i've installed the libxml2-python along lxml (this works) i always get that error. I should give a try to Python3 :-/ A difference between you and the asker, is the arch x64 vs x86. I don't think that the Windows build should do that much difference.

[Intrastellar Explorer]

I found this still encountered the same problem :/ Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?

[Ijaz Ur Rahim]

how can we run apt-get on windows

[MrEduar]

ERROR: lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.