Ok, looks like I managed to fix this problem by installing these two packages in Anaconda:
pkgconfig setuptools I don't know which one of them fixed the problem or whether both of them were needed but at least I got further with the compilation process in spyder. Just my two cents if anybody faces a similar problem. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
