Followup question to This last post here about another problem installing spacy directly from source.
On its website, spacy gives the option to install directly from source (pip and conda are both failing, I've had slightly more luck with this way). It gives 5 steps to enter in the command line:
git clone https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
cd SpaCy
export PYTHONPATH=pwd
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py build_ext --inplace
I had to modify step 3 to use SET, and then it seemed to run okay. However, when I type in step 4, I get this error message:
Command "c:\users\jacqu\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\jacqu\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-bo29last\\preshed\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-wve_7ck8\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-bo29last\preshed\
It seems to be a problem installing some part of Spacy called preshed. I have no idea what this error means or how to work around it. In the past I've tried to install the specific parts that I get this error for one at a time, but that doens't seem to work for preshed (pip install preshed also fails with the same error message). If it matters at all, Spacy has a folder on my computer, so it seems to have at least partially installed.
Any and all suggestions would be appreciated - python is 3.7 and I'm using Windows 10.
