Installing gevent from source on Windows

I was trying to install Gevent from source on my windows machine using virtualenv. So lets start from the beggining:


c:\Python27\python.exe virtualenv.py --distribute sandbox_gevent
sandbox_gevent\Scripts\activate
pip install gevent


Problems

 
As usual, problems are waiting to happen.

Downloading/unpacking gevent
Downloading gevent-0.13.8.tar.gz (300kB): 300kB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package gevent
Please provide path to libevent source with --libevent DIR
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Please provide path to libevent source with --libevent DIR


Fix

libevent is missing so we have to install it. From source 🙂
Download https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz and unpack it. You don’t have to build this, it is only used by gevent in the build process.

Retry

 
pip install gevent --install-option="--libevent path\to\libevent\source"


Problems, again

 
Here it is again.

Downloading/unpacking gevent
Downloading gevent-0.13.8.tar.gz (300kB): 300kB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package gevent
Please provide path to libevent source with --libevent DIR
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Please provide path to libevent source with --libevent DIR


As it turns out the --install-option switch doesn’t work. Maybe it could be fixed somehow but I found it is easier to install gevent directly from source.

Installation gevent from source

 
First download gevent source and unpack it. And then run this:

cd path\to\gevent\source
python setup.py build --libevent path\to\libevent\source
python setup.py install --libevent path\to\libevent\source


Done 🙂

I have VS2008 installed so if you don’t try to get at least the VC 2008 redistributable and the platform SDK to get the files needed to compile this.