How to install Python package from source on Windows

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon May 15 00:56:21 EDT 2017


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:26 PM, eryk sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Deborah Swanson
> <python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
>> Unfortunately I don't have Visual Studio 2015+ installed and I can't
>> install it on Windows XP SP2 (plus I really don't want to). Probably I
>> should have mentioned that, but I didn't know I'd need to build C/C++.
>
> 3.5+ doesn't work in XP, so the highest version you can run is 3.4.
> For 32-bit, install recordclass-0.4.3-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl.

The best way to install this sort of thing is using pip. You should
have it with your Python 3.4, and it'll do all the work of figuring
out which one to download.

ChrisA



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