Comment 1 for bug 1934817

The instructions don't give any context except to say "have a proper C compiler setup", but delving into the INSTALL docs, I see "lxml can use http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html" and heading over to that site, it says "All binaries have been built using C/C++ compiler version 13" but it also makes mention of "If you're using Windows 95...", so I'm not super confident in the freshness of the guidance.

At one point in my life (~13 years ago), I wrote a Python script that would build lxml from sources reliably on Windows, but I'm not sure if I still have that code. I suspect I deleted it, presuming that this project had probably formalized a process for building on Windows.