PycURL installation on Python 3.7.0 (Windows 10)

Question

I'm having a problem to install PycURL on the following environment

Environment

Python 3.7.0
Windows 10 

Problem

C:\>pip install pycurl
Collecting pycurl
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/e4/0dbb8735407189f00b33d84122b9be52c790c7c3b25286826f4e1bdb7bde/pycurl-7.43.0.2.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Please specify --curl-dir=/path/to/built/libcurl

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 10 in C:\Users\user01\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-xrandomx\pycurl\

C:\>

According to the official site ... http://pycurl.io/docs/latest/install.html#official-packages

Currently official PycURL packages are built against the following Python versions:

2.7.10
3.2.5
3.3.5
3.4.3
3.5.2
3.6.0

Does it mean I have to uninstall current Python 3.7.0 and install 3.6.0 to make it works?

Is there any alternative?

Answer 1

You have two major options:

• compile pycurl for Python 3.7 manually (starting point to dig is here)
• use unofficial binary of pycurl

Latter is much easier.

Most famous site with unofficial binaries is this one. Download whl file of pycurl matching your python version and python architecture from here. Install downloaded file with pip:

pip install C:/path/to/downloaded/file/pycurl‑7.43.1‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl