zipline 1.1.1 fails to load module DLL error on windows

[Suvesh]

Hi there,

I could install the zipline 1.1.1 on window 10, Anaconda environment 3.4.5.

When i run zipline run --help I get :

'ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found"

The traceback

File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\Scripts\zipline-script.py", line 11, in <module>

    load_entry_point('zipline==1.1.1', 'console_scripts', 'zipline')()

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.4.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 565, in load_entry_point

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.4.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2598, in load_entry_point

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.4.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2258, in load

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\setuptools-27.2.0-py3.4.egg\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2264, in resolve

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\__init__.py", line 25, in <module>

    from .utils.run_algo import run_algorithm

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\utils\run_algo.py", line 17, in <module>

    from zipline.algorithm import TradingAlgorithm

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\algorithm.py", line 79, in <module>

    from zipline.finance.performance import PerformanceTracker

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\finance\performance\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>

    from . tracker import PerformanceTracker

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\finance\performance\tracker.py", line 69, in <module>

    import zipline.finance.risk as risk

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\finance\risk\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>

    from . report import RiskReport

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\finance\risk\report.py", line 64, in <module>

    from . period import RiskMetricsPeriod

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\zipline\finance\risk\period.py", line 28, in <module>

    from empyrical import (

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\empyrical-0.3.2-py3.4.egg\empyrical\__init__.py", line 21, in <module>

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\empyrical-0.3.2-py3.4.egg\empyrical\stats.py", line 20, in <module>

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\__init__.py", line 348, in <module>

    from .stats import *

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\stats.py", line 175, in <module>

    import scipy.special as special

  File "c:\Anaconda\envs\py3.4\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\__init__.py", line 640, in <module>

    from ._ufuncs import *

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

The installation steps:

Installed Anaconda with pyhthon 3.6

Created new environment for python 3.4 using : conda create -n myenv python=3.4

Installed zipline using: conda install -c quantopian zipline

Appreciate any help.

Thanks

Suvesh

[Suvesh]

Never mind. The python version 3.5 works just fine.