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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import subprocess
+
+# This is what we're down to...
+try:
+    import Cython
+except ImportError:
+    subprocess.call(['pip install cython'], shell=True)
+
+try:
+    import murmurhash
+except ImportError:
+    subprocess.call(['pip install murmurhash'], shell=True)
+
+try:
+    import cymem
+except ImportError:
+    subprocess.call(['pip install cymem'], shell=True)
+
+try:
+    import preshed
+except ImportError:
+    subprocess.call(['pip install preshed'], shell=True)
+
+try:
+    import thinc
+except ImportError:
+    subprocess.call(['pip install thinc'], shell=True)
+
+try:
+    import numpy
+except ImportError:
+    subprocess.call(['pip install numpy'], shell=True)
+
+
+import Cython.Distutils
+from Cython.Distutils import Extension
+import distutils.core
+
+import sys
+import os
+import os.path
+
+from os import path
+from glob import glob
+
+import numpy
+
+
+def clean(ext):
+    for pyx in ext.sources:
+        if pyx.endswith('.pyx'):
+            c = pyx[:-4] + '.c'
+            cpp = pyx[:-4] + '.cpp'
+            so = pyx[:-4] + '.so'
+            html = pyx[:-4] + '.html'
+            if os.path.exists(so):
+                os.unlink(so)
+            if os.path.exists(c):
+                os.unlink(c)
+            elif os.path.exists(cpp):
+                os.unlink(cpp)
+            if os.path.exists(html):
+                os.unlink(html)
+
+
+
+HERE = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+virtual_env = os.environ.get('VIRTUAL_ENV', '')
+compile_args = []
+link_args = []
+libs = []
+
+includes = ['.', numpy.get_include()]
+cython_includes = ['.']
+
+
+if 'VIRTUAL_ENV' in os.environ:
+    includes += glob(path.join(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'], 'include', 'site', '*'))
+else:
+    # If you're not using virtualenv, set your include dir here.
+    pass
+
+ext_args = {'language': "c++", "include_dirs": includes}
+
+exts = [
+    Extension("spacy.typedefs", ["spacy/typedefs.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.strings", ["spacy/strings.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.lexeme", ["spacy/lexeme.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.vocab", ["spacy/vocab.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.tokens", ["spacy/tokens.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.morphology", ["spacy/morphology.pyx"], **ext_args),
+
+    Extension("spacy._ml", ["spacy/_ml.pyx"], **ext_args),
+
+    Extension("spacy.tokenizer", ["spacy/tokenizer.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.en.attrs", ["spacy/en/attrs.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.en.pos", ["spacy/en/pos.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.syntax.parser", ["spacy/syntax/parser.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.syntax._state", ["spacy/syntax/_state.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.syntax.arc_eager", ["spacy/syntax/arc_eager.pyx"], **ext_args),
+    Extension("spacy.syntax._parse_features", ["spacy/syntax/_parse_features.pyx"],
+              **ext_args)
+    
+    #Extension("spacy.pos_feats", ["spacy/pos_feats.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner._state", ["spacy/ner/_state.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner.bilou_moves", ["spacy/ner/bilou_moves.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner.io_moves", ["spacy/ner/io_moves.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner.greedy_parser", ["spacy/ner/greedy_parser.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner.pystate", ["spacy/ner/pystate.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner.context", ["spacy/ner/context.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner.feats", ["spacy/ner/feats.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+    #Extension("spacy.ner.annot", ["spacy/ner/annot.pyx"], language="c++", include_dirs=includes),
+]
+
+
+if sys.argv[1] == 'clean':
+    print >> sys.stderr, "cleaning .c, .c++ and .so files matching sources"
+    map(clean, exts)
+
+distutils.core.setup(
+    name='spacy',
+    packages=['spacy', 'spacy.en', 'spacy.syntax'],
+    description="Industrial-strength NLP",
+    author='Matthew Honnibal',
+    author_email='honnibal@gmail.com',
+    version='0.1',
+    url="http://honnibal.github.io/spaCy/",
+    package_data={"spacy": ["*.pxd"], "spacy.en": ["*.pxd", "data/pos/*",
+                            "data/wordnet/*", "data/tokenizer/*",
+                            "data/vocab/*"],
+                  "spacy.syntax": ["*.pxd"]},
+    cmdclass={'build_ext': Cython.Distutils.build_ext},
+    ext_modules=exts,
+    license="Dual: Commercial or AGPL",
+    requires=['cython', 'murmurhash', 'cymem', 'preshed', 'thinc', "unidecode",
+              "ujson"]
+)