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:
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.