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Final note: If you don't want to install all modules, having the three below (or a newer version of the VC++ 2017) would be sufficient.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.
I went to http://nipy.org/dipy/installation.html and install nibabel, then I when I wanted to install dipy, there where 2 problems:
Wheel was not built
and vcvarshall.bat not found.
What I did ?
Install Setuptools in site-pakcages
download Setuptools-34.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (md5) and save in site-packages
I also try
python setup.py install --compiler=mingw32ç
and
If you get an error saying unable to find vcvarsall.bat then you need to create a file called pydistutils.cfg in notepad and give it the contents
[build]
compiler=mingw32
But setup.py de system it did not find, and I still have vcvarshall.bat not found.
what I need to do?
I am using, Windows 7, Python 3.5.1 and Anaconda 2.5.0 (64 bit)
You will almost certainly find it easier to install third-party packages if you adopt virtual environments. When done correctly you will then not need admin privileges to install packages into virtualenvs. The HitchHikers' Guide to Python contains more information about this.
The vcvarsall.bat is, I believe, a part of the Visual Studio (the Express version is available at no cost) environment. It's required when you are trying to build a compiled Python extension as described in this article. I'm not sure how that will play with mingw.
So, I installed via ANACONDA but , when I go to python, and I want to import dipy it says: No modle named dipy
Solved ! Well I had python 3.5 and dipy has some issues with that version, so I installed Anaconda with python 2.7 , installed visual c++9 and follow the steps on the web !
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!