python – Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with “Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools”: http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools – Stack Overflow

I did a variation of @Jason246 answer, to keep up with changes to the website.

I was having a problem with a pip install spacy that gave the same problem in the title.

This is running on a Windows 10 machine.

First, I went directly to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017 .

Then I clicked the Download button. The download was 71 Mb at the time. Then pressed the install button when the download ran. The install took a long time as it had to create a Windows restore point.

Then I started the installer and checked the following:

Visual Studio components

I selected

  • Windows 10 SDK
  • C++ CMake tools for Windows

(and the VS 2019 C++ came along for the ride).

I ran

pip install spacy

and am no longer getting the error for C++ 14.0.