can't install apache arror on windows 10

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I receive this error message when importing pyarrow:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "D:\Python\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\pyarrow_init_.py", line 54, in
from pyarrow.lib import cpu_count, set_cpu_count
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

I am using this:

Python 3.7.1 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, Nov 13 2018, 19:01:41) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] :: Anaconda, Inc. on win32

I saw that someone else had the same problem here:

conda-forge/pyarrow-feedstock#54

but the solution didn't help in my case.

List of packages installed:

(base) C:\Users\marcc>conda list

1. packages in environment at D:\Python\Miniconda3:

1. Name Version Build Channel
   absl-py 0.6.1 pypi_0 pypi
   alabaster 0.7.12 py_0 conda-forge
   arctic 1.74.0 pypi_0 pypi
   arrow-cpp 0.12.0 py37_vc14h51c8329_0 conda-forge
   asn1crypto 0.24.0 py37_1003 conda-forge
   astor 0.7.1 pypi_0 pypi
   astroid 2.1.0 py37_1000 conda-forge
   asyncio 3.4.3 pypi_0 pypi
   attrs 18.2.0 py_0 conda-forge
   babel 2.6.0 py_1 conda-forge
   backcall 0.1.0 py_0 conda-forge
   backtrader 1.9.69.122 pypi_0 pypi
   blas 1.0 mkl
   bleach 3.0.2 pypi_0 pypi
   boost-cpp 1.68.0 h6a4c333_1000 conda-forge
   ca-certificates 2018.11.29 ha4d7672_0 conda-forge
   certifi 2018.11.29 py37_1000 conda-forge
   cffi 1.11.5 py37hfa6e2cd_1001 conda-forge
   chardet 3.0.4 py37_1003 conda-forge
   cloudpickle 0.6.1 py_0 conda-forge
   colorama 0.4.0 py_0 conda-forge
   conda 4.6.2 py37_0 conda-forge
   conda-env 2.6.0 1
   console_shortcut 0.1.1 3
   cryptography 2.5 py37h74b6da3_0 conda-forge
   cycler 0.10.0 py_1 conda-forge
   cython 0.29.3 py37h6538335_0 conda-forge
   decorator 4.3.0 py_0 conda-forge
   docutils 0.14 py37_1001 conda-forge
   entrypoints 0.3 py37_1000 conda-forge
   enum-compat 0.0.2 pypi_0 pypi
   freetype 2.9.1 he8b6a0d_1004 conda-forge
   future 0.17.1 py37_1000 conda-forge
   gast 0.2.1.post0 pypi_0 pypi
   gflags 2.2.2 he025d50_1000 conda-forge
   glog 0.3.5 h6538335_1
   grpcio 1.17.1 pypi_0 pypi
   h5py 2.9.0 pypi_0 pypi
   icc_rt 2017.0.4 h97af966_0
   icu 58.2 ha66f8fd_1
   idna 2.8 py37_1000 conda-forge
   imagesize 1.1.0 py_0 conda-forge
   inflection 0.3.1 py37_1
   intel-openmp 2019.0 118
   ipykernel 5.1.0 py37h39e3cac_1002 conda-forge
   ipython 7.2.0 py37h39e3cac_1000 conda-forge
   ipython_genutils 0.2.0 py_1 conda-forge
   ipywidgets 7.4.2 py_0 conda-forge
   isort 4.3.4 py37_1000 conda-forge
   jedi 0.13.2 py37_1000 conda-forge
   jinja2 2.10 py_1 conda-forge
   jpeg 9c hfa6e2cd_1001 conda-forge
   jsonschema 3.0.0a3 py37_1000 conda-forge
   jupyter 1.0.0 py_1 conda-forge
   jupyter_client 5.2.3 py_1 conda-forge
   jupyter_console 6.0.0 py_0 conda-forge
   jupyter_core 4.4.0 py_0 conda-forge
   keras-applications 1.0.6 pypi_0 pypi
   keras-preprocessing 1.0.5 pypi_0 pypi
   keyring 17.1.1 py37_1000 conda-forge
   kiwisolver 1.0.1 py37he980bc4_1002 conda-forge
   lazy-object-proxy 1.3.1 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   libboost 1.67.0 hd9e427e_4
   libflang 5.0.0 h6538335_20180525 conda-forge
   libpng 1.6.36 h7602738_1000 conda-forge
   libprotobuf 3.6.1 h1a1b453_1000 conda-forge
   libsodium 1.0.16 h2fa13f4_1001 conda-forge
   llvm-meta 5.0.0 0 conda-forge
   lz4 2.1.6 pypi_0 pypi
   lz4-c 1.8.3 he025d50_1001 conda-forge
   m2w64-gcc-libgfortran 5.3.0 6
   m2w64-gcc-libs 5.3.0 7
   m2w64-gcc-libs-core 5.3.0 7
   m2w64-gmp 6.1.0 2
   m2w64-libwinpthread-git 5.0.0.4634.697f757 2
   markdown 3.0.1 pypi_0 pypi
   markupsafe 1.1.0 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   matplotlib 3.0.2 py37_1002 conda-forge
   matplotlib-base 3.0.2 py37h3e3dc42_1002 conda-forge
   mccabe 0.6.1 py_1 conda-forge
   menuinst 1.4.14 py37_1000 conda-forge
   mistune 0.8.4 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   mkl 2018.0.3 1
   mkl_fft 1.0.6 py37hdbbee80_0
   mkl_random 1.0.1 py37h77b88f5_1
   mockextras 1.0.2 pypi_0 pypi
   more-itertools 4.3.0 py37_1000 conda-forge
   msys2-conda-epoch 20160418 1
   nbconvert 5.3.1 py_1 conda-forge
   nbformat 4.4.0 py_1 conda-forge
   notebook 5.7.4 py37_1000 conda-forge
   numpy 1.15.4 py37ha559c80_0
   numpy-base 1.15.4 py37h8128ebf_0
   numpydoc 0.8.0 py_1 conda-forge
   openblas 0.3.5 h535eed3_1000 conda-forge
   openmp 5.0.0 vc14_1 [vc14] conda-forge
   openssl 1.0.2p hfa6e2cd_1002 conda-forge
   packaging 18.0 py_0 conda-forge
   pandas 0.24.0 py37h6538335_0 conda-forge
   pandoc 2.2.3.2 0
   pandocfilters 1.4.2 py_1 conda-forge
   parquet-cpp 1.5.1 4 conda-forge
   parso 0.3.1 py_0 conda-forge
   patsy 0.5.1 py_0 conda-forge
   pickleshare 0.7.5 py37_1000 conda-forge
   pip 19.0.1 py37_0 conda-forge
   prometheus_client 0.4.2 py_0 conda-forge
   prompt_toolkit 2.0.7 py_0 conda-forge
   protobuf 3.6.1 pypi_0 pypi
   psutil 5.4.8 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   pyarrow 0.12.0 pypi_0 pypi
   pybind11 2.2.4 pypi_0 pypi
   pycodestyle 2.4.0 py_1 conda-forge
   pycosat 0.6.3 py37hfa6e2cd_1001 conda-forge
   pycparser 2.19 py_0 conda-forge
   pyflakes 2.0.0 py_0 conda-forge
   pygments 2.2.0 py_1 conda-forge
   pylint 2.2.2 py37_1000 conda-forge
   pymongo 3.7.2 pypi_0 pypi
   pyopenssl 18.0.0 py37_1000 conda-forge
   pyparsing 2.3.0 py_0 conda-forge
   pyqstrat 0.2.13 pypi_0 pypi
   pyqt 5.9.2 py37h6538335_2
   pyrsistent 0.14.9 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   pysocks 1.6.8 py37_1002 conda-forge
   python 3.7.1 hc182675_1000 conda-forge
   python-dateutil 2.7.5 py_0 conda-forge
   pytz 2018.7 py_0 conda-forge
   pywin32 224 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   pywin32-ctypes 0.2.0 py37_1000 conda-forge
   pywinpty 0.5.5 py37_1000 conda-forge
   pyzmq 17.1.2 py37hf576995_1001 conda-forge
   qgrid 1.1.1 pypi_0 pypi
   qt 5.9.6 vc14h1e9a669_2
   qtawesome 0.5.3 pyh8a2030e_0 conda-forge
   qtconsole 4.4.2 py_1 conda-forge
   qtpy 1.5.2 pyh8a2030e_0 conda-forge
   quandl 3.4.0 py37_1000 conda-forge
   requests 2.21.0 py37_1000 conda-forge
   rope 0.10.7 py_1 conda-forge
   ruamel_yaml 0.15.71 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   scipy 1.1.0 py37h4f6bf74_1
   seaborn 0.9.0 py_0 conda-forge
   send2trash 1.5.0 py_0 conda-forge
   setuptools 40.7.2 pypi_0 pypi
   sip 4.19.8 py37h6538335_1000 conda-forge
   six 1.11.0 pypi_0 pypi
   snappy 1.1.7 h6538335_1002 conda-forge
   snowballstemmer 1.2.1 py_1 conda-forge
   sphinx 1.8.3 py37_1000 conda-forge
   sphinxcontrib-websupport 1.1.0 py_1 conda-forge
   spyder 3.3.2 py37_0
   spyder-kernels 0.3.0 py37_1001 conda-forge
   sqlite 3.26.0 hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   statsmodels 0.9.0 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   teafiles 0.7.4 pypi_0 pypi
   tensorboard 1.12.2 pypi_0 pypi
   tensorflow 1.12.0 pypi_0 pypi
   termcolor 1.1.0 pypi_0 pypi
   terminado 0.8.1 py37_1001 conda-forge
   testpath 0.4.2 py37_1000 conda-forge
   thrift-cpp 0.12.0 h07bee8b_1000 conda-forge
   tornado 5.1.1 py37hfa6e2cd_1000 conda-forge
   traitlets 4.3.2 py37_1000 conda-forge
   typed-ast 1.3.0 py37hfa6e2cd_0 conda-forge
   tzlocal 1.5.1 pypi_0 pypi
   urllib3 1.24.1 py37_1000 conda-forge
   vc 14.1 h0510ff6_4
   vs2015_runtime 14.15.26706 h3a45250_0
   wcwidth 0.1.7 py_1 conda-forge
   webencodings 0.5.1 pypi_0 pypi
   werkzeug 0.14.1 pypi_0 pypi
   wheel 0.32.3 py37_0 conda-forge
   widgetsnbextension 3.4.2 py37_1000 conda-forge
   win_inet_pton 1.0.1 py37_1002 conda-forge
   wincertstore 0.2 py37_1002 conda-forge
   winpty 0.4.3 4
   wrapt 1.11.1 py37hfa6e2cd_0 conda-forge
   xz 5.2.4 h2fa13f4_1001 conda-forge
   yaml 0.1.7 vc14_0 [vc14] conda-forge
   zeromq 4.2.5 he025d50_1006 conda-forge
   zlib 1.2.11 vc14_0 [vc14] conda-forge
   zstd 1.3.3 vc14_1 conda-forge

    

   I am adding some images with the visual studio / c++ installation set up

Environment: windows 10, visual studio 2017
Reporter: Marc Cohen

Original Issue Attachments:

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_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-4458. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

[asfimport]

Uwe Korn / @xhochy:
[~marcco411] You have two issues:

• pyarrow was installed via pip (it's listed as pypi)
• libboost is incompatible with packages from conda-forge.
• You can fix this by running
  • conda uninstall libboost pyarrow
  • conda install -c conda-forge pyarrow

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Please reopen if you find an new environment incantation for installing everything from conda-forge where things don't work properly

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Marc Cohen:
I can't do it since whatever I try I get: RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

I guess I ll try reinstalling a new environment

Thanks for the guidance

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Marc Cohen:
fyi, I think my anaconda install became corrupted. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. then used

• conda install -c conda-forge pyarrow   and it works well. Thanks again!