install microsoft visual C++ 14 — setting up visual studio build tools 2017
Installing microsoft visual c++ 14 seems to be necessary when installing a few things in life.
visual studio installer build tools 2017 c++ 14.0 etc etc etc… takes time, start it now.
(oh yeah and restart is necessary here).
Start early, the next part takes longer.
The install takes a little bit of time too.
setting up visual studio build tools 2017
Time to take a nap.
As you’re installing, go check out your next hurdle. Beautiful soup!
Here’s what you need to check out to knock out the visual studio portion.
- https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers explains the basics.
- https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017 shows you what to download.
Run the installer, don’t select anything other than default settings, and click install. It takes a little bit, and then you need to restart.
Once we get back from the restart, we will do the following pip installs.
pip install lxml (breaks with out c++14.0.)
Awesome.
Typos by tyler garrett
