Failed to build with Visual Studio 2019

[justin-cyhuang]

Hi all,

I don't have VS2017 installed, instead I got VS2019..
What do I need to do to change the requirements?

while I tried to pip3 install . and hit the following error:

CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
    Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of
    CMake.

    Update the VERSION argument <min> value or use a ...<max> suffix to tell
    CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.


  CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:2 (PROJECT):
    Generator

      Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64

    could not find any instance of Visual Studio.



  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
  See also "C:/Users/xxxxxx/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-req-build-liw8runl/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
  Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
  CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
    Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of
    CMake.

    Update the VERSION argument <min> value or use a ...<max> suffix to tell
    CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.


  -- The C compiler identification is unknown
  CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (ENABLE_LANGUAGE):
    The CMAKE_C_COMPILER:

      cl

    is not a full path and was not found in the PATH.

    To use the NMake generator with Visual C++, cmake must be run from a shell
    that can use the compiler cl from the command line.  This environment is
    unable to invoke the cl compiler.  To fix this problem, run cmake from the
    Visual Studio Command Prompt (vcvarsall.bat).

    Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment
    variable "CC" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_C_COMPILER to the full path to
    the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.


  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
  See also "C:/Users/xxxxxx/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-req-build-liw8runl/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
  See also "C:/Users/xxxxxx/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-req-build-liw8runl/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
  Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
  CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
    Compatibility with CMake < 2.8.12 will be removed from a future version of
    CMake.

    Update the VERSION argument <min> value or use a ...<max> suffix to tell
    CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.


  -- The C compiler identification is unknown
  CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (ENABLE_LANGUAGE):
    The CMAKE_C_COMPILER:

      cl

    is not a full path and was not found in the PATH.

    To use the JOM generator with Visual C++, cmake must be run from a shell
    that can use the compiler cl from the command line.  This environment is
    unable to invoke the cl compiler.  To fix this problem, run cmake from the
    Visual Studio Command Prompt (vcvarsall.bat).

    Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment
    variable "CC" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_C_COMPILER to the full path to
    the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.


  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
  See also "C:/Users/xxxxxx/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-req-build-liw8runl/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
  See also "C:/Users/xxxxxx/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-req-build-liw8runl/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".


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  ********************************************************************************
  scikit-build could not get a working generator for your system. Aborting build.

  Building windows wheels for Python 3.7 requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
  Get it with "Visual Studio 2017":

    https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/

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  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for afdko
Failed to build afdko
ERROR: Could not build wheels for afdko which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

[kaydeearts]

Hi @justin-cyhuang , changing the version of MSVC that pip picks up may help:
There's details here on running a batch file to do this.

Let me know how that goes, or if you have questions about running that batch file above. You can also try to install it in Developer Command Prompt for VS19 as well.

[justin-cyhuang]

Great thanks. Both approaches worked for me.
BTW, I noticed that I was using vscode terminal Orz.