Can't Install Python Libraries with C Dependencies

Question

I'm currently running Python 3.4 on Windows 8.1 using PyCharm Community 5.0.3 and I've been running into the following error when I try to install libraries with C dependencies (ie pymssql):

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)

I've gone through various Stack Overflow responses to similar situations but haven't been able to find a viable answer as most of the questions are for Python 2.7. The main response I have found is to re-download Visual Studio 10, which I haven't been able to find at all on the web.

Any insight into this matter would be great.

Answer 1

First of all you can Download Microsoft Visual 2013 Redistributable Packages from this link

You can also use Mingw as a compiler for python 2.x and also for 3.x

check this documentation : https://docs.python.org/2.7/install/#gnu-c-cygwin-mingw

This allows you to have compiler to build your extensions for your python,to use mingw as a compiler for python you have to :

1-install mingw32 to **C:\\programs\\mingw**

2-Add mingw32's bin directory to your environment variable: append c:\\programs\\MinGW\\bin; to the PATH

3-Edit ( create if not existing ) distutils.cfg file located at C: \\Python2\\Lib\\distutils\\distutils.cfg to be:

[build]
compiler=mingw32

Now run easy_install.exe to install any module using c or c++ extensions :)