Installing psycopg2 (postgresql) in virtualenv on windows

Question

I installed psycopg2 in virtualenv using easy_install psycopg2. I did not see any errors and looks like installation went fine.. there is an egg file created in

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Edit: this solution is outdated. Refer to this answer instead.

I had the same problem. Following the suggestion on the download page of the Windows port for getting it working on Zope worked for me under virtualenv (also in the non-virtual install):

1. Download the executable, rename the .exe extension to .zip
2. Extract the file contents.
3. Copy the psycopg2 folder to MyEnv/Lib
4. Copy the egg to MyEnv/Lib/site-packages