I'm working with a legacy project, and I need to install a libxml2 compatible with python 3.X I need to use lxml 4.1.1, I tried to work with Christoph Gohlke's Window binaries https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml , but he doesn't have the version that I need I have also seen the libxml2 at http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/python/ , but it's only compatible with Python 2.X I already tried newer versions of lxml, but it does not work for me And trying to install the version that I need with pip gets me this error: Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed? there is any work around for this? Continue reading...