Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)

Question

I\'ve installed Python 3.5 and while running

pip install mysql-python

it gives me the following error

error: Microsoft Vi         


        

Answer 1

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:

1. Go to Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017

2. Select free download under Visual Studio Community 2017. This will download the installer. Run the installer.

3. Select what you need under workload tab:

   a. Under Windows, there are 3 choices. Only check Desktop development with C++

   b. Under Web & Cloud, there are 7 choices. Only check Python development (I believe this is optional But I have done it).

4. 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Final Note : If you don't want to install all modules, having the 3 ones below (or a newer version of the VC++ 2017) would be sufficient.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 dont need to install Visual Studio Community Edition itself) => This minimal install is already a 4.5GB, so saving off anything is helpful

Answer 2

had a similar situation installing pymssql

pip was trying to build the package because there were no official wheels
for python 3.6 & windows.

solved it by downloading an unoffical wheel from here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

specifically for your case -> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysql-python

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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 require also need 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 VS Tools to work

Answer 5

I had exactly the same issue and solved it by installing mysql-connector-python with:

pip install mysql-connector-python

I am on python3.7 & windows 10 and installing Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (as described here) did not solve my problem that was identical to yours.

Answer 6

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

Edit: New working link

Edit: As suggested by Lightfire228, you may also need to upgrade setuptools package for the error to disappear:

pip install --upgrade setuptools