Install fasttext on Windows 10 with anaconda

Question

I am trying to install fasttext in anaconda with Windows 10 using the command: pip install fasttext as explained here: https://pypi.org/project/fasttext/

The error messages are:

ValueError: Unknown MS Compiler version 1900

and

Command "c:\users\nicol\anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\nicol\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-pd0xqmlg\\fasttext\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\nicol\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-4qt38yfk\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\nicol\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pd0xqmlg\fasttext\

Can you tell me how I can fix this problem?

The only requirement listed is Cython, which I have:

(C:\Users\nicol\Anaconda3) C:\Users\nicol>pip install Cython
Requirement already satisfied: Cython in c:\users\nicol\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (0.25.2)

Answer 1

Try:

pip install fasttext_win

If this works, credits to cmoscardi for his response in GitHub. https://github.com/salestock/fastText.py/issues/167#issuecomment-404258960