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WestCoastProjects

Reputation: 63201

Error installing python module lxml on osx mavericks

Here is my python env: note that numpy is working

13:41:44/shared:5 $python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 25 2013, 00:04:04)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from numpy import *
>>> print mat([1,2,3])
[[1, 2, 3]]
>>>

But I am unable to install lxml. What is missing in my python and/or os configuration to make this work:

13:37:03/shared:4 $pip install --upgrade lxml
Downloading/unpacking lxml
  Downloading lxml-3.2.4.tar.gz (3.3MB): 3.3MB downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package lxml
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'bugtrack_url'
      warnings.warn(msg)
    Building lxml version 3.2.4.
    Building without Cython.
    Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.28

    warning: no previously-included files found matching '*.py'
    warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'src/lxml/tests'
Installing collected packages: lxml
  Running setup.py install for lxml
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'bugtrack_url'
      warnings.warn(msg)
    Building lxml version 3.2.4.
    Building without Cython.
    Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.28
    building 'lxml.etree' extension
    cc -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -g -Os -pipe -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -mno-fused-madd -DENABLE_DTRACE -DMACOSX -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshorten-64-to-32 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -pipe -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/private/var/folders/k4/l5ww32y14svd5wmkgzzftl9m0000gn/T/pip_build_steve/lxml/src/lxml/includes -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.9-intel-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -flat_namespace
    clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-mno-fused-madd'
    clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-flat_namespace'
    In file included from src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:314:
    **/private/var/folders/k4/l5ww32y14svd5wmkgzzftl9m0000gn/T/pip_build_steve/lxml/src/lxml/includes/etree_defs.h:9:10: fatal error: 'libxml/xmlversion.h' file not found
    #include "libxml/xmlversion.h"**
             ^
    1 error generated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2881

Answers (1)

kamjagin
kamjagin

Reputation: 3654

It seems like you are missing libxml/xmlversion.h

Since it seems that /usr/include/libxml2 is being included, I think the most probable reason is that you don't have libxml2 installed on your system. This is most likely due to missing "command line tools". Get them here: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?=command%20line%20tools

Can also be solved by installing libxml2 via macports or brew (But don't do this other than as last resort). Using system libraries instead of homebrew or macports whenever possible can save you from a lot of incompatibility pitfalls.

Upvotes: 5

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