[xml] Failed to install libxml2 2.7.3 Python 2.6.6 binding on windows using easy_install

[Manuel Koch <mko0815 googlemail com>]

Hi libxml2 and Python experts !

I get errors / warnings when trying to install windows libxml2 python bindings for Python 2.6.6
on my WindowsXP.

Downloaded  libxml2-python-2.7.3.win32-py2.6.exe from http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/
Trying to install it using easy_install ( setuptools-0.6c11 ) gives me the following console output :

=== START OF CONSOLE OUTPUT ==
PROMPT>PATH_TO_MY_PYTHON\Scripts\easy_install.exe libxml2-python-2.7.7.win32-py2.6.exe
Processing libxml2-python-2.7.7.win32-py2.6.exe
WARNING: can't process DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/iconv.dll
WARNING: can't process DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/libexslt.dll
WARNING: can't process DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/libxml2.dll
WARNING: can't process DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/libxslt.dll
creating 'c:\MY_TEMP_DIR\easy_install-wszs91\libxml2_python-2.7.7-py2.6-win32.egg' and adding 'c:\MY_TEMP_DIR\easy_install-wszs91\libxml2_python-2.7.7-py2.6-win32.egg.tmp' to it
Moving libxml2_python-2.7.7-py2.6-win32.egg to d:\views\kochma00_s14_vg2_0c\tools\python\lib\site-packages
Adding libxml2-python 2.7.7 to easy-install.pth file

Installed PATH_TO_MY_PYTHON\lib\site-packages\libxml2_python-2.7.7-py2.6-win32.egg
Processing dependencies for libxml2-python==2.7.7
Finished processing dependencies for libxml2-python==2.7.7
=== END OF CONSOLE OUTPUT ===

Trying to open the libxml2 installer executable with WinZip shows that the mentioned files

 DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/iconv.dll
 DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/libexslt.dll
 DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/libxml2.dll
 DATA/lib/site-packages/libxmlmods/libxslt.dll
are available inside the installer executable !?

After installation I can only find the following libxml2 related file in my Python directory :
Lib\site-packages\libxml2_python-2.7.7-py2.6-win32.egg

I renamed the .egg file to .zip to check it's content.
The mentioned DLLs are not included in the egg file !?

I wonder if this installation works without the required DLLs.

Any suggestion or hint is welcome !

kind regards
Manuel Koch