Error while installing re2

[akhilmahla]

Hi Team,

While installing re2, I'm getting below error

Building wheels for collected packages: re2
  Building wheel for re2 (setup.py): started
  Building wheel for re2 (setup.py): finished with status 'error'
  ERROR: Complete output from command 'c:\program files\alteryx\alteryx designer 2019.4\bin\miniconda3\envs\jupytertool_venv\python.exe' -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\TEMP\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\3\\pip-install-z23sip7e\\re2\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d 'C:\Users\TEMP\AppData\Local\Temp\3\pip-wheel-7xhezyjo' --python-tag cp36:
  ERROR: running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 're2' extension
  error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

[Qiu · Accepted solution]

@akhilmahla 
From erro message, it seems you need to install Microsoft Visual C++.

Can you try to install it and see if it will work.

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

[messi007]

@akhilmahla,

You have to install : 

Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Hope that helps,

Regards,