title: Trouble installing Scrapy on Windows 64 bit
body: <p>I am attempting to install Scrapy on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. I started by following the instructions here on Scrapy's documentation.</p>
  
  <p>I got up until the command <code>'pip install Scrapy'</code>. Everything works except that it cannot find 'libxml2':</p>
  
  <pre><code>Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2     installed?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then visited this website to get the binaries of <code>libxml2</code>:</p>
  
  <p><a href="ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/64bit/" rel="nofollow">ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/64bit/</a></p>
  
  <p>The instructions for installation of <code>libxml2</code> are here: <a href="https://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html</a></p>
  
  <p>They state that you should unzip the binaries and place the contents of the <code>BIN</code> folder in a path such as <code>C:\WINDOWS</code>. I did this. However, after attempting to install Scrapy again, I continue to receive the same error. Is there something I am missing?</p>