Annoy fails to build on Windows due to Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0

[basisvectors]

Hi, Annoy installed without any issues on my WSL Ubuntu but when I tried to install it on windows it failed Here's the log

PS > py -3.9 -m pip install annoy
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com
Collecting annoy
  Downloading annoy-1.17.3.tar.gz (647 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 647.5/647.5 kB 13.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: annoy
  Building wheel for annoy (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for annoy (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [12 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-39
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-39\annoy
      copying annoy\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-39\annoy
      copying annoy\__init__.pyi -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-39\annoy
      copying annoy\py.typed -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-39\annoy
      running build_ext
      building 'annoy.annoylib' 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/
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for annoy
Failed to build annoy
ERROR: Could not build wheels for annoy, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

I would try installing VC++14.0 build tools but that is a 6+GB install.

Do you have any suggestions to resolve this? Would it be possible to get pre-built wheels for python 3.9 or 3.10?

Please let me know, thanks!

[Razeeeeeeeeeee]

Hi, where you able to solve the issue, It happened for me too.

Thanks in advance

[basisvectors]

i installed the vc++ build tools for C++ and other stuff, was annoying but i did eventually build the wheels for 3.9 successfully, they only have pre-built wheels for Python 3.10 macOS 11.0+ ARM64, i tried finding the wheels i built so i could share it with you but i cant find where pip stores them, easiest way would be to just download the vc++ build tools https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

install the default selection with the Win 10/Win 11 SDK