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Installing lxml in 2022 on MacOS 12.6 Monterrey
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  1. Upgrade pip globally and in virtualenv and build deps
pip install --upgrade pip
source ./.venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install setuptools
deactivate
brew install libxml2
brew install libxslt
  1. Link libraries
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/libxml2/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc   
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib"      
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/libxml2/include"    
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/libxslt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc        
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libxslt/lib" 
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/libxslt/include"
  1. Build
source ./.venv/bin/activate
pip install lxml --install-option="--libxml2-version=2.9.2"

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