Installing Ms C++ 14.0 For Python Without Visual Studio

I am installing some python packages of an existed project and I am getting this error: error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with 'Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools'

Solution 1:

Installing MS C++ 14.0 for python without Visual Studio

To install Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0, you can download the Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017, install and open it, select: Workloads → Visual C++ build tools(Even you can only select only the "Windows 10 SDK"):

If above still not resolve your issue, you can try to switch to Individual components, scrolling down the list of Individual components, there was a section titled Compilers, build tools, and runtimes. Under that section there was a VC++ 2015.3 v140 toolset for desktop (x86,x64) option and select it:

I have installed both of them, so I can not make sure which one is installed to solve this issue.

Besides, someone give a another workaround to resolve this issue, you can check if it works for you:

One way around is to install precompiled binaries. The webpage http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs (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.

You can check this document and this thread for some more details.

Hope this helps.

Solution 2:

You can avoid large downloads with another setup file.

To install MS C++ 14.0 only:

1. download visualcppbuildtools_full.exe file and execute.

2. unselect all the checkboxes (to avoid large download).

3. install button will be shown, click it.

restart pc and you are up to it.

Solution 3:

Following the installation link specified by @Leo Liu-MSFT, I selected below two options only and the issue get resolved without restarting my machine.