cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory when installing Scrapy

Question

I\'m trying to install Scrapy framework. After installing all dependent libraries and start installing setup.py file, I get this error message: \"cl.exe\' failed: No such fi

Answer 1

I've met the same problem after I installed the latest version of Visual Studio. Here's the solution that worked out in the end:

1. Visit: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

2. Download the correct version of Twisted and Lxml accordingly (your python version system version).

3. pip install twisted and lxml before pip install scrapy