How to solve "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required" when installing Python packages?
Question:
I’m trying to install a package on Python, but Python is throwing an error on installing packages. I’m getting an error every time I tried to install pip install google-search-api.
Here is the error how can I successfully install it?
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
I already updated that and have the latest version of 14.27 but the problem is throwing the same error.
Answers:
Go to this link and download Microsoft C++ Build Tools:
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
Open the installer, then follow the steps.
You might have something like this, just download it or resume.
If updating above doesn’t work then you need to configure or make some updates here. You can make some updates here too by clicking "Modify".
Check that and download what you need there or you might find that you just need to update Microsoft Visual C++ as stated on the error, but I also suggest updating everything there because you might still need it on your future programs. I think those with the C++ as I’ve done that before and had a similar problem just like that when installing a python package for creating WorldCloud visualization.
UPDATE: December 28, 2020
You can also follow these steps here:
- Select: Workloads → Desktop development with C++
- Then for Individual Components, select only:
- Windows 10 SDK
- C++ x64/x86 build tools
You can also achieve the same automatically using the following command:
vs_buildtools.exe --norestart --passive --downloadThenInstall --includeRecommended --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools
Reference:
https://www.scivision.dev/python-windows-visual-c-14-required
2020 – redist/build tools for Visual C++
silent installs can be done using the following two commands :
vs_buildtools__370953915.1537938681.exe --quiet --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools
and
VC_redist.x64.exe /q /norestart
- Upgrade your pip with:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
- Upgrade your wheel with:
pip install --upgrade wheel
- Upgrade your setuptools with:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
- Close the terminal
- Try installing the package again.
Tried Prason’s approach. Also tried the fix suggested here
- conda install -c conda-forge implicit
- pip install –upgrade gensim
check if no older version of Microsoft Visual C++ are installed. If so uninstall them.
I tried everything and then finally, downgrading from python 3.10 to 3.9 is what worked. (I noticed it in this comment, but it is a bit different scenario: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70617749/17664284 )
I encounered the above-mentionned problem when using virtualenv. Using conda environment instead solved the problem. Conda automatically installs vs2015_runtime which compiles the wheels with no problem.
In addition to the verified answer by @ice bear, just make sure to reboot your system after downloading and installing the latest visual studio build tools. And then the error you might be getting would go!
-
here is my error ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
-
download whl https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#multidict
-
pip install multidict-6.0.2-py3-none-any.whl
-
pip install httpie
After installing all C++ dependency, issue was not resolved because in
my case issue was with python version. I was working with python 11.x
and was using langchain-Chroma module. Chroma has support for
python 10.x.
I’m trying to install a package on Python, but Python is throwing an error on installing packages. I’m getting an error every time I tried to install pip install google-search-api.
Here is the error how can I successfully install it?
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
I already updated that and have the latest version of 14.27 but the problem is throwing the same error.
Go to this link and download Microsoft C++ Build Tools:
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
Open the installer, then follow the steps.
You might have something like this, just download it or resume.
If updating above doesn’t work then you need to configure or make some updates here. You can make some updates here too by clicking "Modify".
Check that and download what you need there or you might find that you just need to update Microsoft Visual C++ as stated on the error, but I also suggest updating everything there because you might still need it on your future programs. I think those with the C++ as I’ve done that before and had a similar problem just like that when installing a python package for creating WorldCloud visualization.
UPDATE: December 28, 2020
You can also follow these steps here:
- Select: Workloads → Desktop development with C++
- Then for Individual Components, select only:
- Windows 10 SDK
- C++ x64/x86 build tools
You can also achieve the same automatically using the following command:
vs_buildtools.exe --norestart --passive --downloadThenInstall --includeRecommended --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools
Reference:
https://www.scivision.dev/python-windows-visual-c-14-required
2020 – redist/build tools for Visual C++
silent installs can be done using the following two commands :
vs_buildtools__370953915.1537938681.exe --quiet --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools
and
VC_redist.x64.exe /q /norestart
- Upgrade your pip with:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip - Upgrade your wheel with:
pip install --upgrade wheel - Upgrade your setuptools with:
pip install --upgrade setuptools - Close the terminal
- Try installing the package again.
Tried Prason’s approach. Also tried the fix suggested here
- conda install -c conda-forge implicit
- pip install –upgrade gensim
check if no older version of Microsoft Visual C++ are installed. If so uninstall them.
I tried everything and then finally, downgrading from python 3.10 to 3.9 is what worked. (I noticed it in this comment, but it is a bit different scenario: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70617749/17664284 )
I encounered the above-mentionned problem when using virtualenv. Using conda environment instead solved the problem. Conda automatically installs vs2015_runtime which compiles the wheels with no problem.
In addition to the verified answer by @ice bear, just make sure to reboot your system after downloading and installing the latest visual studio build tools. And then the error you might be getting would go!
-
here is my error ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
-
download whl https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#multidict
-
pip install multidict-6.0.2-py3-none-any.whl
-
pip install httpie
After installing all C++ dependency, issue was not resolved because in
my case issue was with python version. I was working with python 11.x
and was using langchain-Chroma module. Chroma has support for
python 10.x.