trouble installing pcapy on windows 7 - cannot open include file: 'pcap.h' - python

I am trying to install pcapy on a Windows machine. I have already installed WinPcap 4.1.3
I downloaded pcapy 0.10.8 into C:\pcapy-0.10.8
When I try to do the install, the following happens:
C:\pcapy-0.10.8>c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_ext
building 'pcapy' extension
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\Bin\amd64\cl.exe /c /nolog o /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -DWIN32=1 -Ic:\devel\oss\wpdpack\Include -Ic:\Python27\include -Ic:\Python27\PC /Tppcapdumper.cc /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release \pcapdumper.obj
pcapdumper.cc
pcapdumper.cc(12) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pcap.h': No such file or directory
error: command 'cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
I don't know where it's looking for pcap.h. I can confirm that there is no file by that name in the pcapy-0.10.8 directory.
What am I missing? I just now installed WinPcap -- do I need a reboot or something? Thanks!
Edited to add... here is the output from my WinPcap install log:
WinPcap 4.1.0.2980 Installation LOG
-----------------------------------------------------
Debug Information
Operating system detected on registry: 7 - AMD64
True operating system (kernel.dll): 7 - AMD64
npptools.dll present on the system: false
netnm.inf present on the system: false
nmnt.sys present on the system: false
End of log
-----------------------------------------------------
Do the falses there mean that WinPcap did not get installed properly? I was hoping to find pcap.h under my WinPcap directory, but it's not there. I do see where I could add additional include file directories in the setup.py if needed, but I can't find pcap.h anywhere on my machine. Where am I supposed to be getting that from?

C:\pcapy-0.10.8>c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py install
From the text on the CoreLabs site for pcapy, that suggests that you downloaded the source rather than the Win32 binary. Unless you really need to build from source, you will probably find it a LOT easier to just install the binary.
Do the falses there mean that WinPcap did not get installed properly?
No.
I was hoping to find pcap.h
Then, IF you NEED to build from source, you need to install the WinPcap Developer's Pack. WinPcap is just the "run time", sufficient for programs such as Wireshark that have already been built, but not sufficient for software that uses WinPcap and that need to be compiled on your machine - and, apparently, whatever flavor of pcapy you downloaded needs to be built.
(This is similar to the way libpcap is packaged on many Linux distributions - the "libpcap" package just installs the run time, and you need to install a "libpcap-dev" package, or something such as that, to get the header files.)
But if the Windows binary works for you, don't bother with the WinPcap developer's pack.

Building on Josh P's answer (which I used to get most of the way there just now):
download the WinPcap Developer's pack
extract the zip file (e.g. c:\users\foo\Downloads\WpdPack_4_1_2)
build using the --global-option to pass in the header and linker locations
When specifying the library folder for the linker, on Windows 7, I needed to specify the x64 version of the lib, not the (default) x32 version of the lib:
pip install pcapy --global-option="build_ext"
--global-option="-Ic:\users\foo\Downloads\WpdPack_4_1_2\WpdPack\include"
--global-option="-Lc:\users\foo\Downloads\WpdPack_4_1_2\WpdPack\lib\x64"
I was getting the following link errors when using the ...\lib (x32) version of the file:
Creating library build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\pcapy.lib and object build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\pcapy.exp
pcapdumper.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol pcap_dump_close
referenced in function "void __cdecl pcap_dealloc(struct pcapdumper *)"
(?pcap_dealloc##YAXPEAUpcapdumper###Z)

As Guy Harris explained, it's generally easier to download install a binary. If you do build from source:
Download the WinPcap Developer's Pack.
Use pip's --global-option. setup.py is different, but I think pip is preferred over setup.py anyway.
Here's an example line (substitute in the correct paths for your system; I just referenced them right in the Downloads folder):
pip install ./pcapy-src-dir --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-LC:\path\to\WpdPack_4_1_2\WpdPack\Lib" --global-option="-IC:\path\to\WpdPack_4_1_2\WpdPack\Include
See also this answer.

In the pcapy-0.11.1 the setup.py is smarter, even smarter that what they described on their wiki page: https://github.com/CoreSecurity/pcapy/wiki/Compiling-Pcapy-on-Windows-Guide
The investigation demonstrated that's enough to set environment variable WPDPACK_BASE, so in Windows' case it may look like:
set WPDPACK_BASE=C:\Software\WpdPack
It's even able to detect if you need 32 or 64 bit version of these libraries.
Previous answers didn't help me solve the problem, but helped me digging. So they may be bit outdated.

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running build_py
running build_ext
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py-bcrypt_11.patch
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I already have MSVC++ 2010 Express installed, and my vcvarsall.bat file is at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC, which is in my system PATH. When I run easy_install, it can't find vcvarsall.bat.
Is there something I need to set in my distutils.cfg file to point it to my MSVC++ installation?
G:\>easy_install hg-git
install_dir C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\
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Best match: hg-git 0.2.6
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error: Setup script exited with error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
I'd still like to know where to set that reference to vsvarsall.bat...
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VCExpress\9.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir
(for 64bit Windows) or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VCExpress\9.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir
(for 32bit Windows) exists and if so it treats such folder as the one containing vcvarsall.bat file. If none of these folders exists Python checks if there's environment variable VS90COMNTOOLS. If this variable exits Python treats folder two levels above value of this variable as the folder containing vcvarsall.bat file.
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EDIT:
The VC++ 2008 files are now packaged in an installer from MS which can be downloaded here. Once installed vcvarsall.bat will be in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0
Met same problem on python 3.9.12 (anaconda),I install Visual C++ for Python at
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0
and find the msvc9compiler.py at
C:\Users\UserName\anaconda3\Lib\distutils
showed
VS_BASE = r"Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio%0.1f"
how to point the vcvarsall.bat to python ?
(I added the system PATH but not working at all.)
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0
May you please point out how to add registry for the value?
I did't find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir
in my PC.

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