Install throws error related to lxml without wheel package: "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. "

[aa-dank]

A fellow employee ran into an error when trying to install a tool I built with yagmail (which is otherwise great btw). It appears that after not finding wheel installed it looks for some other way but throws an error if C++ is not installed. I did not see C++ install as a necessary dependency in yagmail documentation:

U:\>pip install yagmail

Collecting yagmail

  Downloading yagmail-0.14.260-py2.py3-none-any.whl (16 kB)

Collecting premailer

  Downloading premailer-3.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (19 kB)

Collecting cssselect

  Downloading cssselect-1.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (16 kB)

Collecting cachetools

  Downloading cachetools-4.2.4-py3-none-any.whl (10 kB)

Collecting lxml

  Downloading lxml-4.6.3.tar.gz (3.2 MB)

     |████████████████████████████████| 3.2 MB 3.3 MB/s

Collecting cssutils

  Downloading cssutils-2.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (404 kB)

     |████████████████████████████████| 404 kB ...

Collecting requests

  Downloading requests-2.26.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)

     |████████████████████████████████| 62 kB ...

Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1

  Downloading urllib3-1.26.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (138 kB)

     |████████████████████████████████| 138 kB 6.4 MB/s

Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17

  Downloading certifi-2021.10.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (149 kB)

     |████████████████████████████████| 149 kB 6.8 MB/s

Collecting idna<4,>=2.5

  Downloading idna-3.3-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)

     |████████████████████████████████| 61 kB 4.0 MB/s

Collecting charset-normalizer~=2.0.0

  Downloading charset_normalizer-2.0.7-py3-none-any.whl (38 kB)

Using legacy 'setup.py install' for lxml, since package 'wheel' is not installed.

Installing collected packages: urllib3, idna, charset-normalizer, certifi, requests, lxml, cssutils, cssselect, cachetools, premailer, yagmail

    Running setup.py install for lxml ... error

    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:

     command: 'C:\Users\bjesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\bjesse\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-2o6b4x37\\lxml_fbd419f1200b46269461fff44ca71876\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\bjesse\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-2o6b4x37\\lxml_fbd419f1200b46269461fff44ca71876\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\bjesse\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-xdwchmyn\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers 'C:\Users\bjesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Include\lxml'

         cwd: C:\Users\bjesse\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-2o6b4x37\lxml_fbd419f1200b46269461fff44ca71876\

    Complete output (74 lines):

    Building lxml version 4.6.3.

    Building without Cython.

    Building against pre-built libxml2 andl libxslt libraries

    running install

    running build

    running build_py

    creating build

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\builder.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\cssselect.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\doctestcompare.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\ElementInclude.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\pyclasslookup.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\sax.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\usedoctest.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\_elementpath.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\builder.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\clean.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\defs.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\diff.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\ElementSoup.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\formfill.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\html5parser.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\soupparser.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\usedoctest.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\_diffcommand.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\_html5builder.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\_setmixin.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    copying src\lxml\html\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\html

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron

    copying src\lxml\etree.h -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\etree_api.h -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\lxml.etree.h -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\lxml.etree_api.h -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml

    copying src\lxml\includes\c14n.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\config.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\dtdvalid.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\etreepublic.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\htmlparser.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\relaxng.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\schematron.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\tree.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\uri.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\xinclude.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\xmlerror.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\xmlparser.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\xmlschema.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\xpath.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\xslt.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\__init__.pxd -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\etree_defs.h -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    copying src\lxml\includes\lxml-version.h -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\includes

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\rng

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\rng\iso-schematron.rng -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\rng

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\RNG2Schtrn.xsl -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\XSD2Schtrn.xsl -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl

    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_abstract_expand.xsl -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_dsdl_include.xsl -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1

   copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_schematron_message.xsl -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_schematron_skeleton_for_xslt1.xsl -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\iso_svrl_for_xslt1.xsl -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1

    copying src\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1\readme.txt -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.10\lxml\isoschematron\resources\xsl\iso-schematron-xslt1

    running build_ext

    building 'lxml.etree' extension

    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/

    ----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'C:\Users\bjesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\bjesse\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-2o6b4x37\\lxml_fbd419f1200b46269461fff44ca71876\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\bjesse\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-2o6b4x37\\lxml_fbd419f1200b46269461fff44ca71876\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\bjesse\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-xdwchmyn\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers 'C:\Users\bjesse\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Include\lxml' Check the logs for full command output.

[aa-dank]

Wondering why it wouldn't just install wheel like it would for other python dependencies?

[kootenpv]

It's very weird. But maybe it means you miss some generic developer requirements? Did you find an answer on stackoverflow or something?

[aa-dank]

The problem appears to be with python 3.10 Try installing yagmail in a python 3.10 environment

I had a coworker and a contractor try to install yagmail. It continued breaking despite efforts to install lxml and wheel individually. It only worked on both computers after installing python 3.9 instead of python 3.10.

[kootenpv]

Sorry, I guess it is waiting for 3.10 to mature further?

[YSCohen]

this is also a problem on python 3.11

[kootenpv]

So does it work if you first install windows stuff