How to install python-levenshtein on Windows?
levenshtein-distance, python, windows
Solution
download vcsetup.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6506 (sorry this link is now broken it was for VC++ 2008 ... )
run it
after it finishes open your command.exe
type :`easy_install python-Levenshtein` (this assumes you have setuptools already)
sit back and let it install
done
Problem
After searching for days I'm about ready to give up finding precompiled binaries for Python 2.7 (Windows 64-bit) of the Python Levenshtein library, so not I'm attempting to compile it myself. I've installed the most recent version of MinGW32 (version 0.5-beta-20120426-1) and set it as the default compiler in distutils. Here we go: ``` C:\Users\tomas>pip install python-levenshtein Downloading/unpacking python-levenshtein Running setup.py egg_info for package python-levenshtein warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'docs' warning: no previously-included files matching '*pyc' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '.project' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '.pydevproject' found anywhere in distribution Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in c:\python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg (from python-levenshtein) Installing collected packages: python-levenshtein Running setup.py install for python-levenshtein building 'Levenshtein' extension C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall -IC:\Python27\include -IC:\Python27\PC -c Levenshtein.c -o build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\levenshtein.o cc1.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin' error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 Complete output from command C:\Python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools;__file__='c:\\users\\tomas\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build\\python-levenshtein\\setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).rea d().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\tomas\appdata\local\temp\pip-7txyhp-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed: running install running build running build_ext building 'Levenshtein' extension C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall -IC:\Python27\include -IC:\Python27\PC -c Levenshtein.c -o build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\levenshtein.o cc1.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin' error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 ``` And now I'm stuck. I'm assuming that the `-mno-cygwin` option is outdated and no longer valid for the version of `gcc` that I have. If that is the case, I still have no clue how to fix that. Thanks for any help anybody can offer on this issue. EDIT: I ran the compile line manually after removing the bad option: ``` C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -mdll -O -Wall -IC:\Python27\include -IC:\Python27\PC -c Levenshtein.c -o build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\levenshtein.o ``` Which successfully provided levenshtein.o in the build folder, but when I try to run `python setup.py install` then it just tries to build again and fails. Where can I remove `-mno-cygwin`? I assume it's somewhere in the source of distutils but I can't find it.