title: installing Scrapy under Windows7
body: <p>I try to install Scrapy using easy install. I installed Cython and it seems to work, I installed libxml2 form <a href="http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/</a> I changed <code>cygwinccompiler</code> following this post <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10922967/scrapy-installation-error">scrapy installation error</a> I still got an error and don't know what to do next. Also I don't know why there is that it is <code>Building without Cython</code> I have Windows 7 32-bit and Python 2.7  </p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\t&gt;easy_install -U Scrapy
  Searching for Scrapy
  Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Scrapy/
  Reading http://scrapy.org
  Best match: scrapy 0.16.1
  Processing scrapy-0.16.1-py2.7.egg
  scrapy 0.16.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
  Installing scrapy script to C:\Python27\Scripts
  Installing scrapy.bat script to C:\Python27\Scripts
  
  Using c:\python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy-0.16.1-py2.7.egg
  Processing dependencies for Scrapy
  Searching for lxml
  Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/lxml/
  Reading http://codespeak.net/lxml
  Best match: lxml 3.0.1
  Downloading http://lxml.de/files/lxml-3.0.1.tgz
  Processing lxml-3.0.1.tgz
  Running lxml-3.0.1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\t\appdata\lo
  cal\temp\easy_install-7mgdch\lxml-3.0.1\egg-dist-tmp-686xm8
  Building lxml version 3.0.1.
  Building without Cython.
  ERROR: 'xslt-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
  operable program or batch file.
  
  ** make sure the development packages of libxml2 and libxslt are installed **
  
  Using build configuration of libxslt
  warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'src\lxml\tests'
  In file included from src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:254:0:
  c:\users\t\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-7mgdch\lxml-3.0.1\src\lxml\inc
  ludes/etree_defs.h:9:31: fatal error: libxml/xmlversion.h: No such file or direc
  tory
  compilation terminated.
  error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  </code></pre>