Question :
I want to install Lxml so I can then install Scrapy.
When I updated my Mac today it wouldn’t let me reinstall lxml, I get the following error:
In file included from src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:314:
/private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/src/lxml/includes/etree_defs.h:9:10: fatal error: 'libxml/xmlversion.h' file not found
#include "libxml/xmlversion.h"
^
1 error generated.
error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1
I have tried using brew to install libxml2 and libxslt, both installed fine but I still cannot install lxml.
Last time I was installing I needed to enable the developer tools on Xcode but since its updated to Xcode 5 it doesnt give me that option anymore.
Does anyone know what I need to do?
Answer #1:
You should install or upgrade the commandline tool for Xcode.
Try this in a terminal:
xcode-select --install
Answer #2:
I solved this issue on Yosemite by both installing and linking libxml2 and libxslt through brew:
brew install libxml2
brew install libxslt
brew link libxml2 --force
brew link libxslt --force
If you have solved the problem using this method but it pops up again at a later time, you might need to run this before the four lines above:
brew unlink libxml2
brew unlink libxslt
If you are having permission errors with Homebrew, especially on El Capitan, this is a helpful document. In essence, regardless of OS X version, try running:
sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local
Answer #3:
You may solve your problem by running this on the commandline:
STATIC_DEPS=true pip install lxml
It sure helped me.
Explanations on docs
Answer #4:
I tried most of the solutions above, but none of them worked for me. I’m running Yosemite 10.10, the only solution that worked for me was to type this in the terminal:
sudo CPATH=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/libxml2 CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments pip install lxml
EDIT: If you are using virtualenv, the sudo in beginning is not needed.
Answer #5:
This has been bothering me as well for a while. I don’t know the internals enough about python distutils etc, but the include path here is wrong. I made the following ugly hack to hold me over until the python lxml people can do the proper fix.
sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/libxml2/libxml/ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/libxml
Answer #6:
Installing globally… OS X 10.9.2
xcode-select --install
sudo easy_install pip
sudo CPATH=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/libxml2 CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments pip install lxml
Answer #7:
instalation instructions on http://lxml.de/installation.html explain:
To speed up the build in test environments, e.g. on a continuous integration server, disable the C compiler optimisations by setting the CFLAGS environment variable:
CFLAGS="-O0" pip install lxml
Answer #8:
None of the above worked for me on 10.9.2, as compilation bails out with following error:
clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd'
Which actually lead to cleanest solution (see more details in [1]):
export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
export CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
pip install lxml
or following if installing globally
sudo pip install lxml
[1] clang error: unknown argument: ‘-mno-fused-madd’ (python package installation failure)
