title: How to install snappy C libraries on Windows 10 for use with python-snappy in Anaconda?
body: <p>I want to install <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/parquet" rel="noreferrer">parquet for python</a> using pip within an Anaconda 2 installation on Windows 10. </p>
  
  <p>While installing I ran into the error that is described <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11416024/error-installing-python-snappy-snappy-c-h-no-such-file-or-directory">here</a>, the installer can't find <code>snappy-c.h</code>.</p>
  
  <p>There is no mention on how to install this on Windows in the answers.</p>
  
  <p>I downloaded the Snappy library from <a href="http://google.github.io/snappy/" rel="noreferrer">http://google.github.io/snappy/</a> and now I'm stuck. </p>
  
  <p>From my error message I would have assumed that the header files need to be in <code>C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2\include</code>, but in the downlaoded archive header and library files are just all in the same folder.</p>
  
  <p>How do I install these properly in the Anaconda folder?</p>
  
  <p>Full error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Building wheels for collected packages: python-snappy
    Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-snappy ... error
    Complete output from command C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2\python.exe -u -c "import setup
  tools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\...\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-kl4zef\\python-snappy\\setup.py';f=ge
  tattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec
  '))" bdist_wheel -d c:\users\...\appdata\local\temp\tmpt8fz9bpip-wheel- --python-tag cp27:
    running bdist_wheel
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-2.7
    copying snappy.py -&gt; build\lib.win-amd64-2.7
    running build_ext
    building '_snappy' extension
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-2.7
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release
    C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\amd64\cl.exe /c /nol
  ogo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -IC:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2\include -IC:\Users\...
  \AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2\PC /Tpsnappymodule.cc /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\snappymodule.obj
    snappymodule.cc
    snappymodule.cc(31) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'snappy-c.h': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Users\\...\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Common\\Microsoft\\Visual C++ for Python\\9.0\\V
  C\\Bin\\amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
  </code></pre>