Installation errors without MSVC installed

[peng2001]

There are errors when trying to install pyprime with "pip install -e .[graphics] --find-links deps" without having installed the build tools for msvc.

[ninad-kamat]

It seems the issue here is missing C++ compiler needed on the machine. In case of Windows, msvc compiler is a necessary pre-requisite for development. However, this may not be the case once the wheels are uploaded. The Windows compiler binaries can be installed from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

@waltersma We should keep an eye on this and cover this as part of our documentation

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