Install GeoIP on Windows?

Question

Does anybody know how to install GeoIP's C library on Windows in a few simple steps. Even a few complicated steps will do. I researched and tried to compile it from the setup file but failed several times. Sometimes, I get errors saying that GeoIP.h could not be located. Other times I get that bugtrack_url is not a valid option for compilation.

I have tried using pip install GeoIP and I have also tried just using setup.py.

Has anyone had any luck setting this up on Windows?

Answer 1

The 'GeoIP.h could not be located' error indicates that you need to install libgeoip-dev first. Though I have no idea how to install it on windows easiy.

I suggest you to use the pygeoip package, based on the following reasons:

• pygeoip is a pure python package
• pygeoip supports Python 3
• pygeoip has wheel support
• pygeoip has better documentation
• pygeoip has 50x more downloads on pypi.
• pygeoip is compatible with GeoIP's API