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Cliff
Cliff

Reputation: 11238

Heroku Django app development on Windows

I'm trying to start a Django app on Heroku using Windows and I'm getting stuck on the following error when I try to pip install psycopg2:

Downloading/unpacking psycopg2
  Downloading psycopg2-2.4.5.tar.gz (719Kb): 719Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package psycopg2

    Error: pg_config executable not found.

    Please add the directory containing pg_config to the PATH
    or specify the full executable path with the option:

        python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...

    or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    running egg_info

creating pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info

writing pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\PKG-INFO

writing top-level names to pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\top_level.txt

writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\dependency_links.txt

writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'

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

I've googled the error and it seems you need libpq-dev python-dev as dependencies for postgres under Python. I also turned up a link that says you gt into trouble if you don't have the postgres bin folder in your Path so I installed Postgres manually and tried again. This time I get:

error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

I am still a python N00b so I am lost. Could someone point me in a general direction?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 928

Answers (2)

Cliff
Cliff

Reputation: 11238

I found the answer to my problem. I believe the problem is that pip is looking to compile the dependency from source. The solution is to find a link to pre-compiled version of the dependency. You can then pass this link to the easyinstall library installed in your virtualenv. Easyinstall will download and install the pre-compiled version of the dependency.

Upvotes: 1

leonsas
leonsas

Reputation: 4898

You can use Cygwin and install all the dependencies, but I went through that issue last week and then I realized it was far easier to use a Virtual Box with Ubuntu as my Guest OS. I still did the development on Windows but used Ubuntu just to communicate/push to heroku

Upvotes: 1

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