title: Making saxon-c available in Python
body: <p>I have just read that Saxon is now available for Python, and that's just great fun and good, but can anyone write a tutorial on how to make it available for Python/Anaconda/WingIDE or similar? I am used to installing with pip or conda, and pointing to a package/wheel for integration in my environment, but I have never started from scratch, as it feels I am doing here, or am I missing something?</p>
  <p>The <a href="https://www.saxonica.com/saxon-c/documentation/index.html#!starting/installingpython" rel="nofollow noreferrer">doc</a> states that:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>The Python extension on the Linux and MacOS platforms can be built using the following command:<code>python3 saxon-setup.py build_ext -if</code></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Well, I'm on a windows machine so what then? I've tried to read up on this subject, but recepies and &quot;.h&quot; files seems to be way over my head.</p>
  <p>I just really want to get this to work on Python, but for now, I'm stuck with xslt and xpath 1.0 in Python, and having to wrestle through Java for xslt 2+.</p>
  <p>Any help would be apreciated!</p>
  <p>I will write another question here on StackOverflow, but with focus on how to build using Cython when I have a 64-bit version of Anaconda installed. This seems to be my initial problem.</p>