Scrapy installation on cygwin

Question

I'm trying to get Scrapy running on cygwin 2.7 using the command easy_install Scrapy however I'm a warning followed by a gcc error:

warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'src/lxml/tests'
unable to execute gcc: No such file or directory
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1`

There are some related questions here and here, but both seem to address issues different my current problem.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I couldn't find any gcc package with my version of Cygwin :

$ apt-cyg install gcc
Installing gcc
Unable to locate package gcc

But installing the gcc-g++ package did the trick:

$ apt-cyg install gcc-g++