medspacy-simstring 2.1

Clone of simstring for medspacy which was cloned from another clone designed to work with QuickUMLS. Original version here: http://chokkan.org/software/simstring/

# SimString Python Package

Orginal version by [chokkan](https://github.com/chokkan/simstring). New version (compiles under macOS) from [here](https://github.com/blinkhealth/simstring-python-package)

Windows/Anaconda/VisualStudio specific steps:

1. Make sure that iconv is available to your desired conda environment: conda install -c conda-forge libiconv

2. Then, open a Visual Studio Developer Prompt (e.g. “VS 2015 x64 Developer Command Prompt” or “VS 2015 x86 Developer Command Prompt”)

3. Now you can any of these commands to build or install: python setup.py build && python setup.py install

4. NOTE: If there is a failure that rc.exe cannot be found, add the appropriate WindowKits binary path to PATH. More info on this [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14372706/visual-studio-cant-build-due-to-rc-exe).