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I've installed Python 3.5 and while running
pip install mysql-python
it gives me the following error
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)
I have added the following lines to my Path
C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\Scripts\;
C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\;
C:\Windows\System32;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC
I have a 64-bit Windows 7 setup on my PC.
What could be the solution for mitigating this error and installing the modules correctly via pip.
Your path only lists Visual Studio 11 and 12, it wants 14, which is Visual Studio 2015. If you install that, and remember to tick the box for Languages → C++ then it should work.
On my Python 3.5 install, the error message was a little more useful, and included the URL to get it from:
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools
New working link.
As suggested by Fire, you may also need to upgrade setuptools package for the error to disappear:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
Binary install it the simple way!
Use the binary-only option for pip. For example, for mysqlclient:
pip install --only-binary :all: mysqlclient
Many packages don't create a build for every single release which forces your pip to build from source. If you're happy to use the latest pre-compiled binary version, use --only-binary :all: to allow pip to use an older binary version.
To solve any of the following errors:
Failed building wheel for misaka
Failed to build misaka
Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required
Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
The solution is:
Go to Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017
Select free download under Visual Studio Community 2017. This will download the installer. Run the installer.
Select what you need under workload tab:
a. Under Windows, there are three choices. Only check Desktop development with C++.
b. Under Web & Cloud, there are seven choices. Only check Python development (I believe this is optional, but I have done it).
In cmd, type pip3 install misaka.
Note if you already installed Visual Studio then when you run the installer, you can modify yours (click modify button under Visual Studio Community 2017) and do steps 3 and 4.
Final note: If you don't want to install all modules, having the three below (or a newer version of the VC++ 2017) would be sufficient. (You can also install the Visual Studio Build Tools with only these options, so you don’t need to install Visual Studio Community Edition itself) => This minimal install is already a 4.5 GB, so saving off anything is helpful
As the other responses point out, one solution is to install Visual Studio 2015. However, it takes a few GBs of disk space.
One way around is to install precompiled binaries. The webpage Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages (mirror) contains precompiled binaries for many Python packages. After downloading the package of interest to you, you can install it using pip install, e.g. pip install mysqlclient‑1.3.10‑cp35‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl.
I had the exact issue while trying to install the Scrapy web scraping Python framework on my Windows 10 machine. I figured out the solution this way:
Download the latest (the last one) wheel file from this link: wheel file for twisted package
I'd recommend saving that wheel file in the directory where you've installed Python, i.e., somewhere on the local disk C:
Then visit the folder where the wheel file exists and run pip install <*wheel file's name*>
Finally, run the command pip install Scrapy again and you're good to use Scrapy or any other tool which required you to download a massive Windows C++ Package/SDK.
Disclaimer: This solution worked for me while trying to install Scrapy, but I can't guarantee the same happening while installing other software, packages, etc.
After reading a lot of answers on Stack Overflow and none of them working, I finally managed to solve it following the steps in this question. I will leave the steps here in case the page disappears:
Please try to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017, select the workload “Visual C++ build tools” and check the options "C++/CLI support" and "VC++ 2015.3 v14.00 (v140) toolset for desktop" as below.
I had this exact issue while trying to install mayavi.
I also had the common error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required when pip installing a library.
After looking across many web pages and the solutions to this question, with none of them working, I figured out these steps (most taken from previous solutions) allowed this to work.
Go to Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 and install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017. Which is under All downloads (scroll down) → Tools for Visual Studio 2017
If you have already installed this, skip to 2.
Select the C++ components you require (I didn't know which I required, so I installed many of them).
If you have already installed Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 then open the application Visual Studio Installer then go to Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 → Modify → Individual Components and selected the required components.
From other answers, important components appear to be: C++/CLI support, VC++ 2017 version <...> latest, Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable Update, Visual C++ tools for CMake, Windows 10 SDK <...> for Desktop C++, Visual C++ Build Tools core features, Visual Studio C++ core features.
Install/Modify these components for Visual Studio Build Tools 2017.
This is the important step. Open the application Visual Studio Installer then go to Visual Studio Build Tools → Launch. Which will open a CMD window at the correct location for Microsoft Visual Studio\YYYY\BuildTools.
Now enter python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools within this CMD window.
Finally, in this same CMD window, pip install your Python library: pip install -U <library>.
Use this link to download and install Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools. It will automatically download visualcppbuildtools_full.exe and install Visual C++ 14.0 without actually installing Visual Studio.
After the installation completes, retry pip install and you won't get the error again.
I have tested it on the following platforms and versions:
Python 3.6 on Windows 7 64-bit
Python 3.8 on Windows 10 64-bit
Use this and save time
pip install pipwin
pipwin install yourLibrary
pipwin is like pip, but it installs precompiled Windows binaries provided by Christoph Gohlke. Saves you a lot of time googling and downloading.
And in this case pipwin will solve the problem
Error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)
Read more about pipwin and here they mention Microsoft Visual C++
I had the same problem when installing the spaCy module. And I checked the control panel, and I had several Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables installed already.
I selected "Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015" which was already installed on my PC → "Modify" → check "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015". Then it will take some time and download more than 1 GB to install it.
This fixed my issue. Now I have spaCy installed.
I had this same problem. A solution for updating setuptools
pip install -U setuptools
or
pip install setuptools --upgrade
Make sure that you've installed these required packages. It worked perfectly in my case as I installed the checked packages:
To expand on the answers by ocean800, davidsheldon and user3661384:
You should now no longer use Visual Studio Tools 2015 since a newer version is available. As indicated by the Python documentation, you should be using Visual Studio Tools 2017 instead.
Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 was upgraded by Microsoft to Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017.
Download it from here.
You will also require setuptools. If you don't have setup tools, run:
pip install setuptools
Or if you already have it, be sure to upgrade it.
pip install setuptools --upgrade
For the Python documentation link above you will see that setuptools version must be at least 34.4.0 for Visual Studio Tools to work.
Use the link to Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools. That will install Visual C++ 14.0 without installing Visual Studio.
I had the same issue. Downloading the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 worked for me.
I had exactly the same issue and solved it by installing mysql-connector-python with:
pip install mysql-connector-python
I am on Python 3.7 and Windows 10 and installing Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (as described here) did not solve my problem that was identical to yours.
Just go to https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ find your suitable package (whl file). Download it. Go to the download folder in cmd or typing 'cmd' on the address bar of the folder. Run the command :
pip install mysqlclient-1.4.6-cp38-cp38-win32.whl
(Type the file name correctly. I have given an example only). Your problem will be solved without installing build toll cpp of 6GB size.
To add on top of Sushant Chaudhary's answer:
In my case, I got another error regarding lxml as below:
copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\readme.txt -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1
running build_ext
building 'lxml.etree' extension
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools
I had to install lxml‑4.2.3‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl the same way as in the answer of Sushant Chaudhary to successfully complete installation of Scrapy.
Download lxml‑4.2.3‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl from Lxml
put it in folder where Python is installed
install it using pip install <file-name>
Now you can run pip install scrapy.
I had the same exact issue on my windows 10 python version 3.8.
In my case, I needed to install mysqlclient were the error occurred Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Because installing visual studio and it's packages could be a tedious process, Here's what I did:
step 1 - Go to unofficial python binaries from any browser and open its website.
step 2 - press ctrl+F and type whatever you want. In my case it was mysqlclient.
step 3 - Go into it and choose according to your python version and windows system. In my case it was mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win32.whl and download it.
step 4 - open command prompt and specify the path where you downloaded your file. In my case it was C:\Users\user\Downloads
step 5 - type pip install .\mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win32.whl and press enter.
Thus it was installed successfully, after which I went my project terminal re-entered the required command. This solved my problem
Note that, while working on the project in pycharm, I also tried installing mysql-client from the project interpreter. But mysql-client and mysqlclient are different things. I have no idea why and it did not work.
I had a similar situation installing pymssql.
pip was trying to build the package, because there were no official wheels for Python 3.6 and Windows.
I solved it by downloading an unofficial wheel from Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages.
Specifically for your case: MySQL-python
I just had the same issue while using the latest Python 3.6. With Windows OS 10 Home Edition and a 64-bit operating system.
Steps to solve this issue:
Uninstall any versions of Visual Studio you have had, through Control Panel
Install Visual Studio 2015 and chose the default option that will install
Visual C++ 14.0 on its own
You can use PyCharm for installing Scrapy: Menu Project → Project Interpreter → + (install Scrapy)
Check Scrapy in the REPL and PyCharm by import. You should not see any errors.
None of the solutions here and elsewhere worked for me. It turns out an incompatible 32-bit version of mysqlclient is being installed on my 64-bit Windows 10 OS because I'm using a 32-bit version of Python.
I had to uninstall my current Python 3.7 32 bit, and reinstalled Python 3.7 64 bit and everything is working fine now.
If Visual Studio is NOT your thing, and instead you are using VS Code, then this link will guide you thru the installer to get C++ running on your Windows.
You only needs to complete the Pre-Requisites part.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-msvc/#_prerequisites
This is similar with other answers, but this link will probably age better than some of the responses here.
PS: don't forget to run pip install --upgrade setuptools
This works for me:
pip install --only-binary :all: mysqlclient
I tried ALL of the above and none worked. Just before before signing up for the booby hatch, I found another reason for the error : using the wrong shell on Windows.
conda init cmd.exe
did the trick for me. Hope it may save someone else, too.
I was facing the same problem. The following worked for me:
Download the unofficial binaries file from Christoph Gohlke installers site as per the Python version installed on your system.
Navigate to the folder where you have installed the file and run
pip install filename
For me python_ldap‑3.0.0‑cp35‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl worked as my machine is 64 bit and Python version is 3.5.
This successfully installed python-ldap on my Windows machine. You can try the same for mysql-python.
Look if the package has an official fork that include the necessary binary wheels.
I needed the package python-Levenshtein, had this error, and found the package python-Levenshtein-wheels instead.
I had the same problem. I needed a 64-bit version of Python so I installed 3.5.0 (the most recent as of writing this). After switching to 3.4.3 all of my module installations worked.
Python Releases for Windows
I had the same issue while installing mysqlclient for the Django project.
In my case, it's the system architecture mismatch causing the issue. I have Windows 7 64bit version on my system. But, I had installed Python 3.7.2 32 bit version by mistake.
So, I re-installed Python interpreter (64bit) and ran the command
pip install mysqlclient
I hope this would work with other Python packages as well.
TLDR run vcvars64.bat
After endlessly searching through similar questions with none of the solutions working.
-Adding endless folders to my path and removing them. uninstalling and reinstalling visual studio commmunity and build tools.
and step by step attempting to debug I finally found a solution that worked for me.
(background notes if anyone is in a similar situation)
I recently reset my main computer and after reinstalling the newest version of python (Python3.9) libraries I used to install with no troubles (main example pip install opencv-python) gave
cl
is not a full path and was not found in the PATH.
after adding cl to the path from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.27.29110\bin\Hostx64\x64
and several different windows kits one at a time getting the following.
The C compiler
"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.27.29110/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe"
is not able to compile a simple test program.
with various link errors or " Run Build Command(s):jom /nologo cmTC_7c75e\fast && The system cannot find the file specified"
upgrading setuptools and wheel from both a regular command line and an admin one did nothing as well as trying to manually download a wheel or trying to install with --only-binary :all:
Finally the end result that worked for me was running the correct vcvars.bat for my python installation namely running
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat" once (not vcvarsall or vcvars32) (because my python installed was 64 bit) and then running the regular command pip install opencv-python worked.
Related
Related questions:
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
LXML 3.3 with Python 3.3 on windows 7 32-bit
Related answers:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18045219/1175496
Related comments:
Building lxml for Python 2.7 on Windows
"#ziyuang This would mean you use Python 3.3 which uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. If that's the case then the answer is yes, you should install this version."
Facts
Windows x86 (32-bit)
Installed both Visual Studio C++ 2008 (from here) Express and Visual Studio C++ 2010 (from here)
Python 3.4.1 (apparently compiled with newer version than Visual Studio 2008)
I use pip (or pip3.4.exe; builtin to Python 3.4) to pip install lxml
distutils uses Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express to compile
The last few lines of my error, logged by pip:
cl : Command line warning D9025 : overriding '/W3' with '/w'
lxml.etree.c
C:\Users\NATHAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip_build_nathanielanderson\lxml\src\lxml\includes\etree_defs.h(9)
: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'libxml/xmlversion.h':
No such file or directory
C:\Python34\lib\distutils\dist.py:260: UserWarning: Unknown
distribution option: 'bugtrack_url'
warnings.warn(msg)
error: command 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
So I can't install from the .egg or by compiling...
Other Options
I also can't find Windows installer (exe or msi or whatever) for this version of Python
Not here at PyPi
Nor here at Chris' great site
Update 10/16/2019
As commenter says, the executable links are no longer available
This archived version (from 2014; executable links don't work) shows the old links
As commenter says; the site currently has whl (wheel) files for the lxml library; you can use pip to install from whl files
Or check out this set of links to executable files on pypi.org; the executables only range from 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4
Looks like Chris does provide a direct exe here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml
Thanks, Chris! Any ideas why I cannot compile using pip?
I also got this problem, but the workarounds provided above are not work for me as well.
Here is my system configuration:
Win7 64bit
python3.3
visual studio 2013
I tried to use the method in the first link in the Related questions, but it's fail. This method is to create a system variable for vs2010 use, and the variable is actually copy from my original configuration in visual studio 2013.
However, the command line prompted error with "libxml/xmlversion.h" no suck file or directory
Then I further searched it on the internet and got a method which works in my case.
downloading the precompiled lxml plugin
Precompiled lxml 3.5: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.3.5#downloads
if your system is 64bit, then you can get a unofficial version for x64 at here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml (this is what i use)
installing with command in command line easy_install lxml-3.2.1.win32-py3.3.exe
Reference: https://pytools.codeplex.com/workitem/1520
If you are using python 3.4 this is the download link :
Download Here
If you have any other configuration find it HERE according to your need. ;-)
The short version is: You need to have the C library libxml2 (and also libxslt2) before you can build lxml.
As the lxml installation docs say:
Unless you are using a static binary distribution (e.g. from a Windows binary installer), you need to install libxml2 and libxslt, in particular:
libxml2 2.6.21 or later. It can be found here: http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
We recommend `libxml2 2.7.8 or a later version.
If you want to use XPath, do not use libxml2 2.6.27.
If you want to use the feed parser interface, especially when parsing from unicode strings, do not use libxml2 2.7.4 through 2.7.6.
libxslt 1.1.15 or later. It can be found here: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/downloads.html
We recommend libxslt 1.1.26 or later.
The build from source docs similarly start off with:
To build lxml from source, you need libxml2 and libxslt properly installed, including the header files.
Windows (unlike most other platforms) doesn't come with these libraries. You don't mention anything in your "Facts" about having them.
And the error message that you showed is:
C:\Users\NATHAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip_build_nathanielanderson\lxml\src\lxml\includes\etree_defs.h(9) :
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'libxml/xmlversion.h':
No such file or directory
That 'libxml/xmlversion.h' that it can't find is part of libxml2.
It's also worth noting that the same installation docs explicitly say:
consider using the binary builds from PyPI or the unofficial Windows binaries that Christoph Gohlke generously provides.
So, the fact that you thought Christoph Gohlke didn't provide binaries for lxml implies that you hadn't found these docs.
So, it's possible that you did install libxml2, but not in a way that lxml2's setup script can find it. But all the evidence implies it's a lot more likely that you just don't have it.
I have :
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (32bit)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
I downloaded Mezzanine on my machine from it's official website. It's installation generate error unable to find unable to find vcvarsall.bat . I search for it's solutions and find that it can be compiler error and it needs c++ or c compiler to move forward. I have MS Visual studio 2010. so what i need more to solve this issue.
Looking forward to your assistance.
You can use mingw, the "Minimalist GNU for Windows", by (1) installing mingw and then (2) adding it to your PATH. Then, from the command line and from within the directory where setup.py is located, you can do this:
setup.py install build --compiler=mingw32
Using pip install zipline on Windows 8 with Python 2.7 gives me the error:
Downloading/unpacking six (from python-dateutil==2.1->delorean->zipline[all])
Running setup.py egg_info for package six
Installing collected packages: blist, pytz, requests, python-dateutil, six
Running setup.py install for blist
building '_blist' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
Complete output from command C:\Python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools;__
file__='c:\\users\\ThatsMe\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-ThatsMe\\blist\\setup.py';ex
ec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" inst
all --record c:\users\ThatsMe\appdata\local\temp\pip-xvoky2-record\install-record.tx
t --single-version-externally-managed:
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_blist' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
Question: How can the error be resolved? Running pip install zipline[all] gives the same error...
The problem here is the line 292 (Using Python 3.4.3 here) in $python_install_prefix/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py which says:
VERSION = get_build_version()
This only checks for the MSVC version that your python was built with. Just replacing this line with your actual Visual Studio version, eg. 12.0 for MSVC2013
VERSION = 12.0
will fix the issue.
UPDATE: Turns out that there is a good reason why this version is hardcoded. MSVC C runtime is not required to be compatible between major versions. Hence when you use a different VS version you might run into runtime problems. So I advise to use VS 2008 (for Python 2.6 up to 3.2) and VS2010 for (Python 3.3 and later) until this issue is sorted out.
Binary compatibility will arrive with VS 2015 (see here) along with Python 3.5 .
For Python 2.7 users Microsoft released a special Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 which can be used without installing the whole VS 2008.
You could use ol' good easy_install zipline instead.
easy_install isn't pip but one good aspect of it is the ability to download and install binary packages too, which would free you for the need having VC++ ready. This of course relies of the assumption that the binaries were prepared for your Python version.
UPDATE:
Yes, Pip can install binaries now!
There's a new binary Python archive format (wheel) that is supposed to replace "eggs". Wheels are already supported by pip. This means you'll be able to install zipline with pip without compiling it as soon as someone builds the wheel for your platform and uploads it to PyPI.
If you are getting this error on Python 2.7 you can now get the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 as a stand alone download.
If you are on 3.3 or later you need to install Visual Studio 2010 express which is available for free here: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-2010-express
If you are 3.3 or later and using a 64 bit version of python you need to install the Microsoft SDK 7.1 that ships a 64 bit compiler and follow the directions here Python PIP has issues with path for MS Visual Studio 2010 Express for 64-bit install on Windows 7
First, you should look for the file vcvarsall.bat in your system.
If it does not exist, I recommend you to install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7. This will create the vcvarsall.bat in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0" if you install it for all users.
The problem now is in the function find_vcvarsall(version) in the C:/Python27/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py module, which is looking for the vcvarsall.bat file.
Following the function calls you will see it is looking for an entry in the registry containing the path to the vcvarsall.bat file. It will never find it because this function is looking in other directories different from where the above-mentioned installation placed it, and in my case, the registry didn't exist.
The easiest way to solve this problem is to manually return the path of the vcvarsall.bat file. To do so, modify the function find_vcvarsall(version) in the msvc9compiler.py file with the absolute path to the vcvarsall.bat file like this:
def find_vcvarsall(version):
return r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\vcvarsall.bat"
This solution worked for me.
If you already have the vcvarsall.bat file you should check if you have the key productdir in the registry:
(HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_USERS, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT)\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version\Setup\VC
Where version = msvc9compiler.get_build_version()
If you don't have the key just do:
def find_vcvarsall(version):
return <path>\vcvarsall.bat
To understand the exact behavior check msvc9compiler.py module starting in the find_vcvarsall(version) function.
Simply because you don't have c++ compiler installed there in your machine, check the following
Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 from this page. That is a generally useful page anyway, so you should probably bookmark it. For Python 3.3+ use MS Visual C++ 2010.
Install it.
Open Windows explorer (the file browser) and search for the location of ‘vcvarsall.bat’ and cut it to your clipboard.
run regedit from the Windows start key. You will need admin privilges.
Add a registry entry to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir (64 bit Windows) or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir (32 bit)
as described here.
Hint: 0.9 in the registery directory is the currently installed version of your visual studio, if you running VS 2013, you have to find the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0....
At the Windows start key, type cmd to get a command shell. If you need to, go to your virtual environment and run activate.bat.
pip install or whatever you use to install it.
You need to have Visual Studio's bin dir in your path. Pip install is trying to compile some C code.
I spent hours researching this vcvarsall.bat as well. Most answers on SO focus on Python 2.7 and / or creating workarounds by modifying system paths. None worked for me. This solution worked out of the box for Python 3.5 and (I think) is the "correct" way of doing it.
See this link -- it describes the Windows Compilers to use for different versions of Python: https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers#Microsoft_Visual_C.2B-.2B-_14.0_standalone:_Visual_C.2B-.2B-_Build_Tools_2015_.28x86.2C_x64.2C_ARM.29
For Python 3.5, download this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49983
For me, I had to run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools\Visual C++ x64 Native Build Tools Command Prompt for it to work. From that command prompt, I ran "pip install django_compressor" which was the particular package that was causing me an issue, and it worked perfectly.
Hope this saves someone some time!
Thanks to "msoliman" for his hint, however his answer doesn't give clear solution for those who doesn't have VS2010
For example I have VS2012 and VS2013 and there are no such KEYs in system registry.
Solution:
Edit file: "[Python_install_loc]/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py"
Change on line 224:
productdir = Reg.get_value(r"%s\Setup\VC" % vsbase,
"productdir")
to:
productdir = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio [your_vs_version(11/12...)]\VC"
and that should work
If you are trying to install matplotlib in order to work with graphs on python. Try this link.
https://github.com/jbmohler/matplotlib-winbuild.
This is a set of scripts to build matplotlib from source on the MS Windows platform.
To build & install matplotlib in your Python, do:
git clone https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib
git clone https://github.com/jbmohler/matplotlib-winbuild
$ python matplotlib-winbuild\buildall.py
The build script will auto-detect Python version & 32/64 bit automatically.
I appreciate this might not be the answer to resolving on 3.4 but I tried a huge variety of things to fix this on 3.4 and thought this might be useful if someone is time pressed or doesn't have the know-how to correct it (in my case, work demands).
With exactly the same setup, I found that my installation problems only happened with Python 3.4. When I changed to 2.7, all my issues seemed to be resolved.
We have a rather overzealous security setup though so I'm going to try the same on my home version (still 3.4) and see if I have any more joy. My inclination is that my VS version has somehow been restricted and the answers above should help. If I find anything more tonight I'll add further detail.
This is my first reply, not the most technical I'm afraid!
I tried to install the Python package dulwich:
pip install dulwich
But I get a cryptic error message:
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
The same happens if I try installing the package manually:
> python setup.py install
running build_ext
building 'dulwich._objects' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
Update: Comments point out that the instructions here may be dangerous. Consider using the Visual C++ 2008 Express edition or the purpose-built Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python (details) and NOT using the original answer below. Original error message means the required version of Visual C++ is not installed.
For Windows installations:
While running setup.py for package installations, Python 2.7 searches for an installed Visual Studio 2008. You can trick Python to use a newer Visual Studio by setting the correct path in VS90COMNTOOLS environment variable before calling setup.py.
Execute the following command based on the version of Visual Studio installed:
Visual Studio 2010 (VS10): SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS100COMNTOOLS%
Visual Studio 2012 (VS11): SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS110COMNTOOLS%
Visual Studio 2013 (VS12): SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS120COMNTOOLS%
Visual Studio 2015 (VS14): SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS140COMNTOOLS%
WARNING: As noted below, this answer is unlikely to work if you are trying to compile python modules.
See Building lxml for Python 2.7 on Windows for details.
I found the solution.
I had the exact same problem, and error, installing 'amara'. I had mingw32 installed, but distutils needed to be configured.
I have Python 2.6 that was already installed.
I installed mingw32 to C:\programs\mingw\
Add mingw32's bin directory to your environment variable: append c:\programs\MinGW\bin; to the PATH
Edit (create if not existing) distutils.cfg file located at C:\Python26\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg to be:
[build]
compiler=mingw32
Now run easy_install.exe amara.
Make sure environment is set by opening a new cmd.exe.
You can install compiled version from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
If you want to compile with Visual Studio C++ instead of mingw...
Run python.exe to display which version of VC++ it was compiled with (example shown below).
It is important to use the corresponding version of the Visual C++ compiler that Python was compiled with since distilutils's get_build_version prevents mixing versions (per Piotr's warning).
Yellow (top) is Python 2.7, compiled with MSC v.1500 (Visual Studio C++ 2008)
Red (bottom) is Python 3.4.1, compiled with MSC v.1600 (Visual Studio C++ 2010)
Use the table below[1] to match the internal VC++ version with the corresponding Visual Studio release:
MSC v.1000 -> Visual C++ 4.x
MSC v.1100 -> Visual C++ 5
MSC v.1200 -> Visual C++ 6
MSC v.1300 -> Visual C++ .NET
MSC v.1310 -> Visual C++ .NET 2003
MSC v.1400 -> Visual C++ 2005 (8.0)
MSC v.1500 -> Visual C++ 2008 (9.0)
MSC v.1600 -> Visual C++ 2010 (10.0)
MSC v.1700 -> Visual C++ 2012 (11.0)
MSC v.1800 -> Visual C++ 2013 (12.0)
MSC v.1900 -> Visual C++ 2015 (14.0)
MSC v.1910 -> Visual C++ 2017 (15.0)
MSC v.1911 -> Visual C++ 2017 (15.3)
MSC v.1912 -> Visual C++ 2017 (15.5)
MSC v.1913 -> Visual C++ 2017 (15.6)
MSC v.1914 -> Visual C++ 2017 (15.7)
MSC v.1915 -> Visual C++ 2017 (15.8)
MSC v.1916 -> Visual C++ 2017 (15.9)
Download and install the corresponding version of Visual Studio C++ from the previous step.
Additional notes for specific versions of VC++ are listed below.
Notes for Visual Studio C++ 2008
For only the 32-bit compilers, download Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express Edition.
For the 64-bit compilers[2][3], download Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
Uncheck everything except Developer Tools >> Visual C++ Compilers to save time and disk space from installing SDK tools you otherwise don't need.
Notes for Visual Studio C++ 2010
According to Microsoft, if you installed Visual Studio 2010 SP1, it may have removed the compilers and libraries for VC++.
If that is the case, download Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Compiler Update.
Notes for Visual Studio C++ 2015
If you don't need the Visual Studio IDE, download Visual Studio C++ 2015 Build Tools.
Notes for Visual Studio C++ 2017
If you don't need the Visual Studio IDE, download Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017.
Suggestion: If you have both a 32- and 64-bit Python installation, you may also want to use virtualenv to create separate Python environments so you can use one or the other at a time without messing with your path to choose which Python version to use.
According to #srodriguex, you may be able to skip manually loading the batch file (Steps 4-6) by instead copying a few batch files to where Python is searching by following this answer. If that doesn't work, here are the following steps that originally worked for me.
Open up a cmd.exe
Before you try installing something which requires C extensions, run the following batch file to load the VC++ compiler's environment into the session (i.e. environment variables, the path to the compiler, etc).
Execute:
32-bit Compilers:
Note: 32-bit Windows installs will only have C:\Program Files\ as expected
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
64-bit Compilers:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars64.bat"
Note: Yes, the native 64-bit compilers are in Program Files (x86). Don't ask me why.
Additionally, if you are wondering what the difference between vcvars64.bat and vcvarsx86_amd64.bat or more importantly the difference between amd64 and x86_amd64, the former are for the native 64-bit compiler tools and the latter are the 64-bit cross compilers that can run on a 32-bit Windows installation.
Update:
If for some reason you are getting error: ... was unexpected at this time. where the ... is some series of characters, then you need to check that you path variable does not have any extraneous characters like extra quotations or stray characters. The batch file is not going to be able to update your session path if it can't make sense of it in the first place.
If that went well, you should get one of the following messages depending on which version of VC++ and which command you ran:
For the 32-bit compiler tools:
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 20xx x86 tools.
For the 64-bit compiler tools:
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 20xx x64 tools.
Now, run the setup via python setup.py install or pip install pkg-name
Hope and cross your fingers that the planets are aligned correctly for VC++ to cooperate.
What's going on? Python modules can be part written in C or C++ (typically for speed). If you try to install such a package with Pip (or setup.py), it has to compile that C/C++ from source. Out the box, Pip will brazenly assume you the compiler Microsoft Visual C++ installed. If you don't have it, you'll see this cryptic error message "Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".
The prescribed solution is to install a C/C++ compiler, either Microsoft Visual C++, or MinGW (an open-source project). However, installing and configuring either is prohibitively difficult. (Edit 2014: Microsoft have published a special C++ compiler for Python 2.7)
The easiest solution is to use Christoph Gohlke's Windows installers (.msi) for popular Python packages. He builds installers for Python 2.x and 3.x, 32 bit and 64 bit. You can download them from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
If you too think "Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat" is a ludicrously cryptic and unhelpful message, then please comment on the bug at http://bugs.python.org/issue2943 to replace it with a more helpful and user-friendly message.
For comparison, Ruby ships with a package manager Gem and offers a quasi-official C/C++ compiler, DevKit. If you try to install a package without it, you see this helpful friendly useful message:
Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads and follow the instructions at http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit
You can read a longer rant about Python packaging at https://stackoverflow.com/a/13445719/284795
You'll need to install a Microsoft compiler, compatible with the compiler used to build Python. This means you need Visual C++ 2008 (or newer, with some tweaking).
Microsoft now supplies a bundled compiler and headers just to be able to compile Python extensions, at the memorable URL:
Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7
http://aka.ms/vcpython27
This is a relatively small package; 85MB to download, installable without admin privileges, no reboot required. The name is a little misleading, the compiler will work for any Python version originally compiled with Visual C++ 2008, not just Python 2.7.
If you start a Python interactive prompt or print sys.version, look for the MSC version string; if it is MSC v.1500 you can use this tool.
From the original announcement to the distutils list:
Microsoft has released a compiler package for Python 2.7 to make it easier for people to build and distribute their C extension modules on Windows. The Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 (a.k.a. VC9) is available from: http://aka.ms/vcpython27
This package contains all the tools and headers required to build C extension modules for Python 2.7 32-bit and 64-bit (note that some extension modules require 3rd party dependencies such as OpenSSL or libxml2 that are not included). Other versions of Python built with Visual C++ 2008 are also supported, so "Python 2.7" is just advertising - it'll work fine with 2.6 and 3.2.
Note that you need to have setuptools 6.0 or newer installed (listed in the system requirements on the download page). The project you are installing must use setuptools.setup(), not distutils or the auto-detection won't work.
Microsoft has stated that they want to keep the URL stable, so that automated scripts can reference it easily.
I just had this same problem, so I'll tell my story here hoping it helps someone else with the same issues and save them the couple of hours I just spent:
I have mingw (g++ (GCC) 4.6.1) and python 2.7.3 in a windows 7 box and I'm trying to install PyCrypto.
It all started with this error when running setup.py install:
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
Easily solved after googling the error by specifying mingw as the compiler of choice:
setup.py install build --compiler=mingw32
The problem is that then I got a different error:
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
It turns out that my anti-virus was blocking the execution of a freshly compiled .exe. I just disabled the anti-virus "resident shield" and went to the next error:
cc1.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin'
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
This solved it: "Either install a slightly older version of MinGW, or edit distutils\cygwinccompiler.py in your Python directory to remove all instances of -mno-cygwin." (from here)
Now, I can finally start working.
Looks like its looking for VC compilers, so you could try to mention compiler type with -c mingw32, since you have msys
python setup.py install -c mingw32
I have python 2.73 and windows 7 .The solution that worked for me was:
Added mingw32's bin directory to environment variable: append PATH with C:\programs\mingw\bin;
Created distutils.cfg located at C:\Python27\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg containing:
[build]
compiler=mingw32
To deal with MinGW not recognizing the -mno-cygwin flag anymore, remove the flag in C:\Python27\Lib\distutils\cygwincompiler.py line 322 to 326, so it looks like this:
self.set_executables(compiler='gcc -O -Wall',
compiler_so='gcc -mdll -O -Wall',
compiler_cxx='g++ -O -Wall',
linker_exe='gcc',
linker_so='%s %s %s'
% (self.linker_dll, shared_option,
entry_point))
Look in the setup.py file of the package you are trying to install. If it is an older package it may be importing distutils.core.setup() rather than setuptools.setup().
I ran in to this (in 2015) with a combination of these factors:
The Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 from http://aka.ms/vcpython27
An older package that uses distutils.core.setup()
Trying to do python setup.py build rather than using pip.
If you use a recent version of pip, it will force (monkeypatch) the package to use setuptools, even if its setup.py calls for distutils. However, if you are not using pip, and instead are just doing python setup.py build, the build process will use distutils.core.setup(), which does not know about the compiler install location.
Solution
Step 1: Open the appropriate Visual C++ 2008 Command Prompt
Open the Start menu or Start screen, and search for "Visual C++ 2008 32-bit Command Prompt" (if your python is 32-bit) or "Visual C++ 2008 64-bit Command Prompt" (if your python is 64-bit). Run it. The command prompt should say Visual C++ 2008 ... in the title bar.
Step 2: Set environment variables
Set these environment variables in the command prompt you just opened.
SET DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1
SET MSSdk=1
Reference http://bugs.python.org/issue23246
Step 3: Build and install
cd to the package you want to build, and run python setup.py build, then python setup.py install. If you want to install in to a virtualenv, activate it before you build.
Maybe somebody can be interested, the following worked for me for the py2exe package.
(I have windows 7 64 bit and portable python 2.7, Visual Studio 2005 Express with Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4)
set VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS80COMNTOOLS%
then:
python.exe setup.py install
I spent almost 2 days figuring out how to fix this problem in my python 3.4 64 bit version: Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:44:40) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Solution 1, hard: (before reading this, read first Solution 2 below)
Finally, this is what helped me:
install Visual C++ 2010 Express
install Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1 for Windows 7
create manually file vcvars64.bat in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64 which contains CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x64 or other path depending on where you have yours installed
(this seems to be optional) install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 together with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Compiler Update for the Windows SDK 7.1
after that I tried to pip install numpy but received the following error:
File "numpy\core\setup.py", line 686, in get_mathlib_info
raise RuntimeError("Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program")
RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program
I changed mfinfo to None in C:\Python34\Lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py per this https://stackoverflow.com/a/23099820/4383472
finally after pip install numpy command my avast antivirus tried to interfere into the installation process, but i quickly disabled it
It took very long - several minutes for numpy to compile, I even thought that there was an error, but finally everything was ok.
Solution 2, easy:
(I know this approach has already been mentioned in a highly voted answer, but let me repeat since it really is easier)
After going through all of this work I understood that the best way for me is just to use already precompiled binaries from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ in future. There is very small chance that I will ever need some package (or a version of a package) which this site doesn't contain. The installation process is also much quicker this way. For example, to install numpy:
donwload numpy‑1.9.2+mkl‑cp34‑none‑win_amd64.whl (if you have Python 3.4 64-bit) from that site
in command prompt or powershell install it with pip pip install numpy‑1.9.2+mkl‑cp34‑none‑win_amd64.whl (or full path to the file depending how command prompt is opened)
I wanted to run pysph on Windows 10 under Python 2.7 and got vcvarsall.bat was not found (from distutils)
My solution was the following:
Install Microsoft Visual C++ for Python 2.7 (like #Michael suggested)
On Windows 10 it was installed into (my username is Andreas):
C:\Users\Andreas\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0
Set environment variable VS90COMNTOOLS to the installation path of Visual C++ for Python 2.7 (see above path).
If it still doesn't work, then modifiy in the module
C:/Python27/lib/distutils
the file msvc9compiler.py. Find in it the function find_vcvarsall and do following modification.
Replace the line:
productdir = os.path.join(toolsdir, os.pardir, os.pardir, "VC")
with
productdir = os.path.join(toolsdir)
This is where vcvarsall.bat resides in my case (check, where vcvarsall.bat is in your installation).
I encountered this issue when I tried to install numpy library on my python 3.5. The solution is to install VS2015. I had VS2008, 2012, 2013, none of which is compatible with python 3.5. Apparently newer version of python has dependency on newer versions of VS.
Also make sure C++ Common Tools are installed with Visual Studio.
Use this link to download and install Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools. It will automatically download visualcppbuildtools_full.exe and install Visual C++ 14.0 without actually installing Visual Studio. After the installation completes, retry pip install and you won't get the error again.
I have tested it on following platform and versions:
Python 3.6 on Windows 7 64-bit
Python 3.7 on Windows Server 2016 (64-bit system)
Python 3.8 on Windows 10 64-bit
I tried all the above answers, and found all of them not to work, this was perhaps I was using Windows 8 and had installed Visual Studio 2012. In this case, this is what you do.
The vcvarsall.bat file is located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC
Simply select the file, and copy it.
Then go to this directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools
and paste the file. And then, all should be well.
You can download the free Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7729279, which will set the VS90COMNTOOLS environment variable during installation and therefore build with a compatible compiler.
As #PiotrDobrogost mentioned in a comment, his answer to this other question goes into details about why Visual C++ 2008 is the right thing to build with, but this can change as the Windows build of Python moves to newer versions of Visual Studio: Building lxml for Python 2.7 on Windows
I had this problem using Python 3.4.1 on Windows 7 x64, and unfortunately the packages I needed didn't have suitable exe or wheels that I could use. This system requires a few 'workarounds', which are detailed below (and TLDR at bottom).
Using the info in Jaxrtech's answer above, I determined I needed Visual Studio C++ 2010 (sys.version return MSC v.1600), so I installed Visual C++ 2010 Express from the link in his answer, which is http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9709949. I installed everything with updates, but as you can read below, this was a mistake. Only the original version of Express should be installed at this time (no updated anything).
vcvarsall.bat was now present, but there was a new error when installing the package, query_vcvarsall raise ValueError(str(list(result.keys())))ValueError: [u'path']. There are other stackoverflow questions with this error, such as Errors while building/installing C module for Python 2.7
I determined from that answer that 2010 Express only installs 32-bit compilers. To get 64-bit (and other) compilers, you need to install Windows 7.1 SDK. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb980924.aspx
This would not install for me though, and the installer returned the error installation failed with return code 5100. I found the solution at the following link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2717426. In short, if newer versions of x86 and x64 Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable's are installed, they conflict with the ones in SDK installer, and need uninstalling first.
The SDK then installed, but I noticed vcvars64.bat still did not exist in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin, nor its subfolders. vcvarsall.bat runs the vcvars64 batch file, so without it, the python package still wouldn't install (I forgot the error that was shown at this time).
I then found some instructions here: http://www.cryptohaze.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_7_Build_Setup#Download_VS_2010_and_Windows_SDK_7.1
Following the instructions, I had already installed Express and 7.1 SDK, so installed SDK 7.1 SP1, and did the missing header file fix. I then manually created vcvars64.bat with the content CALL setenv /x64. I will paste all those instructions here, so they don't get lost.
Step 1 is to download Visual Studio Express 2010.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express
is a good place to start. Download the installer, and run it
(vc_web.exe). You don't need the SQL 2008 additional download.
You'll also need the Windows SDK (currently 7.1) for the 64-bit
compilers - unless you want to do 32-bit only builds, which are not
fully supported...
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279 is a good
starting point to download this - you'll want to run winsdk_web.exe
when downloaded!
The default install here is just fine.
Finally, download and install the Windows SDK 7.1 SP1 update:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4422
And, to fix missing header file, VS2010 SP1.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?FamilyID=75568aa6-8107-475d-948a-ef22627e57a5
And, bloody hell, fix the missing batch file for VS2010 Express. This
is getting downright absurd.
In C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64,
create "vcvars64.bat" with the following (you will need to be running
as administrator):
CALL setenv /x64
My python package still did not install (can't recall error). I then found some instructions (copied below) to use the special SDK 7.1 Command Prompt, see: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2012-February/018300.html
Never mind this question. Somebody here noticed this item on the menu: Start->All Programs->Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1 ->Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt
This runs a batch job that appears to set up a working environment for the compiler. From that prompt, you can type "setup.py build" or "setup.py install".
I opened the Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt as instructed, and used it to run easy_install on the python package. And at last, success!
TLDR;
Install Visual Studio Express 2010 (preferably without updated redistributables or SQL server).
Install Windows 7.1 SDK
Instal SDK 7.1 SP1 update, and VS2010 SP1 header file fix (this step may not be required).
Manually create C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat with content CALL setenv /x64
Start->All Programs->Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1 ->Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt to open special x64 command prompt, which can then be used with python/easy_install/pip/etc (including those in virtual_envs).
Below steps fixed this issue for me, I was trying to create setup with cython extension.
Install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7
The default install location would be #
C:\Users\PC-user\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++
for Python This might actually fix the issue, test once before proceeding.
If it fails, Check where in VC++
for python vcvarsall.bat file is located
Open the msvc9compiler.py
file of distutils package in notepad.
In my box this was #
C:\Anaconda2\Lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py find_vcvarsall function
in this file, determine the version of VC by printing out version
argument. For Python 2.7 it's likely to be 9.0
Now create an
environment variable VS90COMNTOOLS, Pointing to
C:\Users\PC-user\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++
for Python\9.0\VC\bin
For some reason distutils expects the
vcvarsall.bat file to be within VC dir, but VC++ for python tools
has it in the root of 9.0 To fix this, remove "VC" from the
path.join (roughly around line 247)
#productdir = os.path.join(toolsdir, os.pardir, os.pardir, "VC")
productdir = os.path.join(toolsdir, os.pardir, os.pardir)
The above steps fixed the issue for me.
calling import setuptools will monkey patch distutils to force compatibility with Visual Studio. Calling vcvars32.bat manually will setup the virtual environment and prevent other common errors the compiler will throw. For VS 2017 the file is located at
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"
Here is the setup script I use to quickly compile .pyx files to .pyd:
(Note: it uses the 3rd party module
send2trash
# cython_setup.py
import sys, os, time, platform, subprocess
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from Cython.Build import cythonize
from traceback import format_exc
# USAGE:
#
# from cython_setup import run
# run(pyx_path)
# vcvars = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"
# NOTE: to use visual studio 2017 you must have setuptools version 34+
vcvars = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"
def _build_ext():
try:
pyx_path = sys.argv.pop(-1)
pyx_path = os.path.abspath(pyx_path)
if not os.path.exists(pyx_path):
raise FileNotFoundError(f"{pyx_path} does not exist")
project_name = sys.argv.pop(-1)
os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(pyx_path)))
print("cwd: %s" % os.getcwd())
print(os.path.abspath("build"))
setup(
name=project_name,
# cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext},
packages=find_packages(),
# ext_modules=cythonize(extensions)
ext_modules=cythonize(pyx_path,
compiler_directives={'language_level': 3, 'infer_types': True, 'binding': False},
annotate=True),
# include_dirs = [numpy.get_include()]
build_dir=os.path.abspath("build")
)
except:
input(format_exc())
def retry(func):
def wrapper(*args, **kw):
tries = 0
while True:
try:
return func(*args, **kw)
except Exception:
tries += 1
if tries > 4:
raise
time.sleep(0.4)
return wrapper
#retry
def cleanup(pyx_path):
from send2trash import send2trash
c_file = os.path.splitext(pyx_path)[0] + ".c"
if os.path.exists(c_file):
os.remove(c_file)
if os.path.exists("build"):
send2trash("build")
def move_pyd_files(pyx_path):
pyx_dir = os.path.dirname(pyx_path)
build_dir = os.path.join(pyx_dir, "build")
if not os.path.exists(build_dir):
raise RuntimeError(f"build_dir {build_dir} did not exist....")
found_pyd = False
for top, dirs, nondirs in os.walk(build_dir):
for name in nondirs:
if name.lower().endswith(".pyd") or name.lower().endswith(".so"):
found_pyd = True
old_path = os.path.join(top, name)
new_path = os.path.join(pyx_dir, name)
if os.path.exists(new_path):
print(f"removing {new_path}")
os.remove(new_path)
print(f"file created at {new_path}")
os.rename(old_path, new_path)
if not found_pyd:
raise RuntimeError("Never found .pyd file to move")
def run(pyx_path):
"""
:param pyx_path:
:type pyx_path:
:return: this function creates the batch file, which in turn calls this module, which calls cythonize, once done
the batch script deletes itself... I'm sure theres a less convoluted way of doing this, but it works
:rtype:
"""
try:
project_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(pyx_path))[0]
run_script(project_name, os.path.abspath(pyx_path))
except:
input(format_exc())
def run_script(project_name, pyx_path):
dirname = os.path.dirname(pyx_path)
# ------------------------------
os.chdir(dirname)
if os.path.exists(vcvars):
# raise RuntimeError(
# f"Could not find vcvars32.bat at {vcvars}\nis Visual Studio Installed?\nIs setuptools version > 34?")
subprocess.check_call(f'call "{vcvars}"', shell=True)
cmd = "python" if platform.system() == "Windows" else "python3"
subprocess.check_call(f'{cmd} "{__file__}" build_ext "{project_name}" "{pyx_path}"', shell=True)
move_pyd_files(pyx_path)
cleanup(pyx_path)
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
_build_ext()
I tried many solutions but only one worked for me, the install of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express C++.
I got this issue with a Python 2.7 module written in C (yEnc, which has other issues with MS VS). Note that Python 2.7 is built with MS VS 2008 version, not 2010!
Despite the fact it's free, it is quite hard to find since MS is promoting VS 2010.
Still, the MSDN official very direct links are still working: check https://stackoverflow.com/a/15319069/2227298 for download links.
If you have mingw installed
pip install --global-option build_ext --global-option --compiler=mingw32 packagename
works, forcing pip to build using the mingw compiler instead of Microsoft's. See here https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/18 for details (last post).
Is Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 not a solution?
The easiest way to solve this in 2016 is to install Chocolatey and then the vcpython27 package. Open Powershell:
> iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
> choco install python2 -y
> choco install vcpython27 -y
I don't know if it is too late, but I found Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 which reads
The typical error message you will receive if you need this compiler package is Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
Hope this helps!
An exhaustive list of MS VС++ versions and installation variations officially supported by distutils (and some by setuptools) and how to use them can be found at
https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers
It also specifies which VC++ version is required for which official Win32 Python release. Note that MinGW is not officially supported (see below for details).
In brief:
For each release, there's a specific Visual Studio release that works out of the box.
Note that Express editions before 2012 do not support x64. Trying to use one for x64 results in an obscure error.
For standalone SDKs, it's generally required to run the installation from the SDK prompt (=set environment variables).
For some, this requirement can be lifted by a one-time tweaking which doesn't have adversal side effects
Some unusual VC++ releases are supported by setuptools and not distutils.
MinGW is said to "work", but only for x86. https://bugs.python.org/issue4709 says that problems with its support lie in MinGW itself and even x86 is bound to have problems since Python 3.5.
I got the same problem and have solved it at the moment.
"Google" told me that I need to install "Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7". I install not only the tool, but also Visual C++ 2008 Reditributable, but it didn't help. I then tried to install Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition. And the problem has gone!
Just try to install Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition!
If you're looking to install pyodbc on a Windows box that doesn't have Visual Studio installed another option is to manually install pyodbc using the binary distribution.
This is particularly useful if you do not have administrator privileges on the machine you're working with and are trying to set up a virtualenv.
Steps:
Download the latest Windows installer from here (pyodbc-X.X.X.win-Y-py2.7.exe)
Open the installer executable using 7-Zip (or WinRAR or whatever)
Extract pyodbc.pyd and pyodbc-X.X.X-py2.7.egg-info and place them in [python installation directory or virtualenv]\Lib\site-packages
There is no step 4 :)
With Python 3.4, the dependency is on Visual Studio 2010. Installing Visual C++ 2010 Express fixed the problem for me.
Tricking it into using the VS 2008 or 2013 installs that I happened to have didn't work.
You can use easy_install instead of pip it works for me.