I'm getting an error Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed? when trying to install lxml through pip.

  c:\users\f\appdata\local\temp\xmlXPathInitqjzysz.c(1) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'libxml/xpath.h': No such file or directory
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  Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?
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  error: command 'C:\\Users\\f\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Common\\Microsoft\\Visual C++ for Python\\9.0\\VC\\Bin\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

I don't find any libxml2 dev packages to install via pip.

Using Python 2.7 and Python 3.x on x86 in a virtualenv under Windows 10.

Install lxml from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml for your python version. It's a precompiled WHL with required modules/dependencies.

The site lists several packages, when e.g. using Win32 Python 3.9, use lxml‑4.5.2‑cp39‑cp39‑win32.whl.

Download the file, and then install with:

pip install C:\path\to\downloaded\file\lxml‑4.5.2‑cp39‑cp39‑win32.whl