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unable to install on Win 7

See original GitHub issue

whether using python setup.py install or pip install glove-python commands from Anaconda prompt, any installation attempt ends in failure with the error 2 below

c:\Anaconda>pip install glove-python
Collecting glove-python
  Downloading glove_python-0.1.0.tar.gz (263kB)
    100% |################################| 266kB 744kB/s
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): numpy in c:\anaconda\l
ib\site-packages (from glove-python)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): scipy in c:\anaconda\l
ib\site-packages (from glove-python)
Building wheels for collected packages: glove-python
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for glove-python ... error
  Complete output from command c:\anaconda\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools,
tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\captain\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-jiom9g\\g
love-python\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).re
ad().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d c:\users\captain\
appdata\local\temp\tmpbo71fdpip-wheel- --python-tag cp27:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-2.7
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-2.7\glove
  copying glove\corpus.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-2.7\glove
  copying glove\glove.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-2.7\glove
  copying glove\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-2.7\glove
  running build_ext

  building 'glove.glove_cython' extension
  error: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:33 (2 by maintainers)

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rahul4tripathi2commented, Aug 29, 2017

How to install glove-python in windows

git clone https://github.com/maciejkula/glove-python.git
goto cloned directory location and open setup.py and remove ‘stdc++’ from libraries=[] paramerter after removing it will look like below

Extension(“glove.corpus_cython”, [glove_corpus], language=‘C++’, libraries=[], extra_link_args=compile_args, extra_compile_args=compile_args)]
conda install cython
open cmd from that location where setup.py is stored and run below command python setup.py install
Verify

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huan086commented, Aug 7, 2016

I removed stdc++ from setup.py and it compiled and worked

        Extension("glove.corpus_cython", [glove_corpus],
                  language='C++',
                  libraries=[],
                  extra_link_args=compile_args,
                  extra_compile_args=compile_args)]