Docs: GH39, Update BUILD.md for directions on installing python lxml module

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Jon Ashburn 2016-02-26 08:40:05 -07:00
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@ -76,7 +76,17 @@ Windows 7+ with additional required software packages:
- Tell the installer to "Add CMake to the system PATH" environment variable.
- Python 3 (from https://www.python.org/downloads). Notes:
- Select to install the optional sub-package to add Python to the system PATH environment variable.
- Ensure the pip module is installed (it should be by default)
- Need python3.3 or later to get the Windows py.exe launcher that is used to get python3 rather than python2 if both are installed on Windows
- 32 bit python works
- Python lxml package must be installed
- Download the lxml package from
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml
32-bit latest for Python 3.5 is: lxml-3.5.0-cp35-none-win32.whl
64-bit latest for Python 3.5 is: lxml-3.5.0-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl
- The package can be installed with pip as follows:
pip install lxml-3.5.0-cp35-none-win32.whl
If pip is not in your path, you can find it at $PYTHON_HOME\Scripts\pip.exe, where PYTHON_HOME is the folder where you installed Python.
- Git (from http://git-scm.com/download/win).
- Note: If you use Cygwin, you can normally use Cygwin's "git.exe". However, in order to use the "update_external_sources.bat" script, you must have this version.
- Tell the installer to allow it to be used for "Developer Prompt" as well as "Git Bash".