Error while installing lxml through pip: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required
I am on a windows 10 machine and recently moved from python 2.7 to 3.5. When trying to install lxml through pip, it stops and throws this error message-
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 have a working copy of VS 2015 installed. When I try to install the visual cpp tools through that link, it says that Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is already installed on the machine. I also tried installing visual studio c++ 2015 redistributables, both 64 and 32 bit versions, but both of them say that there's another version of the product already installed.
typing set in the command prompt includes this -
VS140COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools\
Which means that the path is set.
This is probably the only resource I could find on SO, but the answer suggests rolling back to Python 3.4.3 from 3.5. Has anybody resolved problems of this kind?
Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)
EDIT: I managed to install it using the precompiled binary (Thanks Paul), but I would still like to know what's causing this.
Have you checked that when you installed Visual Studio, you installed the C++ compiler? It seems like a silly question, but this is the mistake I made. Check by going into the setup for visual studio (Programs and features: Modify "Visual Studio 2015"), then under Programming Languages->VC++, make sure it's ticked.
- Run
pip install wheel - Download lxml from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml, if your python version is 3.5 , download
lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win32.whl. - Run
python -m pip install lxml-3.6.4-cp35-cp35m-win32.whl
As an update to the answer from @davidsheldon above, if you want to use Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 instead of 2015, it will work.
I found that the default install of the build tools stand alone was not enough, however, I added `VC++ 2015.3 ... toolset for desktop (x86,x64) and then python was happy:
