How to solve "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required" when installing Python packages?

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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.

i have cut the message cause of too long but it show's error like that — wloleo, Oct 08 '20 at 11:27
The last line of your error message indicates whats wrong. `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/` Please read your error messages carefully before asking these kinds of questions. — FrozenAra, Oct 08 '20 at 11:30
FrozenAra the problem is i already updated that but and have the latest version of 14.27 the problem is throwing same error — wloleo, Oct 08 '20 at 11:40
Then please add that information to your post. And please try to reformat your question so its more readable. — FrozenAra, Oct 08 '20 at 11:43
python 3.10.2 (Win10) same issue exactly. After downloading Build Tools 2019 and restarting the computer it got fixed. pip install ml-python worked perfectly fine. — Vaggelis Manousakis, Mar 02 '22 at 13:54
Seems wrong to me that I need to install this just to run a Python package, especially because it keeps trying to push Visual Studio and other crap on me — xjcl, Mar 02 '22 at 16:26

score 71 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 19 '22 at 11:12

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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

edited Mar 19 '22 at 11:12

Gino Mempin

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answered Oct 08 '20 at 11:58

Ice Bear

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It's 6.74GB install does that sound right? – Frank Oct 12 '21 at 21:05
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@Frank it doesnt work either. I tried installing and it still shows same error. – Muhammad Umair Oct 20 '21 at 06:05
Works perfectly with the command vs_buildtools.exe ... and then python -m pip install --upgrade pip pip install --upgrade wheel pip install --upgrade setuptools – Flavio Barisi Oct 21 '21 at 10:47
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The vs_buildtools command worked for me. I had to download it from https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_buildtools.exe – Robpol86 Nov 13 '21 at 20:00
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honestly: bin dependencies like this that you have to resolve manually are the reason people hate the python package management ecosystem or really any package management system that supports this crap. – omni Dec 08 '21 at 16:32
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It's a big update to install, but it works – Kshitij Agarwal Dec 19 '21 at 15:27
annoying, large download & cumbersome (and hence an upvote to @omni) but I can confirm that this does in fact work once all the lengthy steps are completed. – D.L Feb 23 '22 at 19:36
Python 3.10.2 (Win10): After downloading Build Tools 2019 and restarting the computer it got fixed. ```pip install ml-python``` worked perfectly fine. – Vaggelis Manousakis Mar 02 '22 at 13:55
It works for me as well. i installed reportlab on python 3.6.4 – Muhammad Hassan Mar 19 '22 at 10:22
Doing the lord's work.. Can't believe MS made it so convoluted. – ArduinoBen Apr 06 '22 at 08:56
It doesn't work for me in windows 11 – Tabrizapps Apr 30 '22 at 11:02

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '21 at 03:38

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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 pacakage again.

Boom !!! it works.

answered Jul 05 '21 at 03:38

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it doesnt work for me on Windows 11. – Muhammad Umair Oct 20 '21 at 06:08
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This method has no relation with missing build tools – seghier Nov 11 '21 at 01:56
it doesn't work for me. – user229257 Mar 07 '22 at 02:46

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 03 '21 at 07:31

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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

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answered Dec 24 '20 at 17:08

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 30 '21 at 21:08

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Tried Prason's approach. Also tried the fix suggested here

conda install -c conda-forge implicit
pip install --upgrade gensim

answered Jul 30 '21 at 21:08

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 21 '21 at 06:19

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check if no older version of Microsoft Visual C++ are installed. If so uninstall them.

answered Nov 21 '21 at 06:19

Ashish

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 20 '22 at 05:54

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Download Microsoft C++ Build Tools: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

This solution works for me a lot after installing the MicrosoftVisual c++ build tools got greatly worked a lot to install word cloud and the stopwords process at Python prompt, Great. after installing these errors got cleared along with legacy sys errors and build tool errors too. Thank you.

answered Apr 20 '22 at 05:54

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How to solve "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required" when installing Python packages?

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