How to get python-dev for windows?

Question

We are trying to install PIL and getting the error

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Many similar questions, including this one (installing Reportlab (error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 )), suggest installing the python-dev package.

Where can this be sourced for Windows 7. pip install python-dev didn't work.

Answer 1

It seems there is no python-dev package for Windows. But the Python installer for Windows will normally install a sub directory include inside the main Python dir.

So with Python in C:\Python you would get:

• C:\Python
• C:\Python\DLLs
• C:\Python\Doc
• C:\Python\include
• C:\Python\Lib
• C:\Python\libs
• C:\Python\Scripts
• C:\Python\tcl
• C:\Python\Tools

Inside this include directory you will find Python.h, which can be included or referenced.

Answer 2

When I used to develop on Windows, this website with pre-compiled binaries was extremely handy: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

You'll find pre-compiled versions of PIL and ReportLab there. Hope that helps you out.