Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?
<p>so I'm on Python 3.5.2, I'm trying to install scrapy, it throws an error saying</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Failed building wheel for lxml <br> Could not find function
  xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?</p>
</blockquote>

<p>So I try installing lxml, it throws the same error. I try installing it from <a href="http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml" rel="nofollow">Here</a>, it says:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
  lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win32 (from versions: ) No matching distribution
  found for lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win32</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I can install almost nothing with pip. I'm on a Windows 10 machine. Note that it works flawlessly on my ubunto machine.</p>

<p>try this first</p>

<p>pip install lxml==3.6.0</p>

python scrapy