[melbourne-pug] wheel has fallen off

[Sam Lai]

That download link,
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=44266,
works for me. Maybe just a temporary blip?

On 23 March 2015 at 10:49, Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at openminddev.net> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I generally use the binaries at
> http://www.stickpeople.com/projects/python/win-psycopg/, and use
> easy_install from within the virtualenv to actually install them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rasjid.
>
>
>
> On 23/03/2015 6:38 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
>>
>> I'm failing to install psycopg2 in a virtualenv and hoping someone can
>> help. My efforts so far have blown it away across all virtualenvs. I have
>> obviously installed an incompatible DLL file somewhere as follows ...
>>
>>   File
>> "C:\Users\mike\env\xxdx\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\postgresql_psycopg2\base.py",
>> line 25, in <module>
>>     raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading psycopg2 module: %s" % e)
>> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading psycopg2
>> module: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
>>
>>
>> This is a Windows 8.1 laptop in an activated py2.7.9 env and Chris
>> Gohlke's pre-compiled (where I think "pre-" means "presumably")
>> psycopg2-2.5.5-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl from
>> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
>>
>> I realise Mr Gohlke offers no warranty/support etc.
>>
>> Pip 6.08 doesn't like me using such a downloaded wheel ...
>>
>>
>> (xxdx) C:\Users\mike\env\xxdx\ssds>pip install
>> C:\Users\mike\Downloads\python\postgresql\psycopg2-2.5.5-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
>> psycopg2-2.5.5-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this
>> platform.
>>
>> ... and demands a compiler if I use the more common approach ...
>>
>> (xxdx) C:\Users\mike\env\xxdx>pip install psycopg2
>> Collecting psycopg2
>>   Downloading psycopg2-2.6.tar.gz (367kB)
>>     100% |################################| 368kB 650kB/s
>> Installing collected packages: psycopg2
>>   Running setup.py install for psycopg2
>>     building 'psycopg2._psycopg' extension
>>     error: Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 is required (Unable to find
>> vcvarsall.bat). Get it from http://aka.ms/vcpython27
>>
>> Unfortunately, http://aka.ms/vcpython27 eventually leads to
>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=44266 and just
>> does nothing. Having studied that page carefully and finding a "click here"
>> if nothing happens after 30 seconds it seems there is no server to be found
>> on the other side of that "click here".
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike
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