MS Visual Studio C and C++ build during pip install fails.

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pip install nltk

This is the step that fails during the make processing of compiling _regex.c with a cascade of error messages following this initial one.

clock_t and a number of other symbols are never defined, and these had cascading consequences during further processing.

creating build\temp.win32-cpython-313\Release\regex_3
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe" /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:\Users\AverMedia\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\include -IC:\Users\AverMedia\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Include "-Ic:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\include" "-Ic:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\ATLMFC\include" "-Ic:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\cppwinrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.8\include\um" "-Ic:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\include" "-Ic:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\ATLMFC\include" "-Ic:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\cppwinrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.8\include\um" /Tcregex_3_regex.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-cpython-313\Release\regex_3_regex.obj

regex_3_regex.c(518): error C2061: syntax error: identifier ‘clock_t’
regex_3_regex.c(534): error C2059: syntax error: ‘}’
regex_3_regex.c(614): error C2061: syntax error: identifier ‘RE_State’

AverMedia@AverMedia-PC /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio
$ find ./ -iname “*.h” -exec grep -isa “clock_t” {} /dev/null ; >/cygdrive/c/Users/AverMedia/Documents/found-clock_t.txt

A find command was done in the root directory of msvs and ms vc++ etc, to locate instances of the string clock_t and these were the results...

./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/Llvm/ARM64/lib/clang/17/include/__clang_cuda_device_functions.h:// clock_t is on the system.
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/Llvm/ARM64/lib/clang/17/include/__clang_cuda_device_functions.h:DEVICE /* clock_t= / int clock() { return __nvvm_read_ptx_sreg_clock(); }
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/Llvm/lib/clang/17/include/__clang_cuda_device_functions.h:// clock_t is on the system.
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/Llvm/lib/clang/17/include/__clang_cuda_device_functions.h:DEVICE / clock_t= / int clock() { return __nvvm_read_ptx_sreg_clock(); }
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/Llvm/x64/lib/clang/17/include/__clang_cuda_device_functions.h:// clock_t is on the system.
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/Llvm/x64/lib/clang/17/include/__clang_cuda_device_functions.h:DEVICE / clock_t= */ int clock() { return __nvvm_read_ptx_sreg_clock(); }
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.38.33130/atlmfc/include/afxdockingmanager.h: clock_t m_clkLastTime;
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.38.33130/atlmfc/include/afxribboncategory.h: clock_t m_ActiveTime;
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.38.33130/atlmfc/include/afxtaskspane.h: AFX_IMPORT_DATA static clock_t m_nLastAnimTime;
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/atlmfc/include/afxdockingmanager.h: clock_t m_clkLastTime;
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/atlmfc/include/afxribboncategory.h: clock_t m_ActiveTime;
./2022/Preview/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/atlmfc/include/afxtaskspane.h: AFX_IMPORT_DATA static clock_t m_nLastAnimTime;

Microsoft was given a bug report, but they insisted that it was not their problem, but that of the python package maintainers, and thereby not a bug within msvc, etc.

I hope that some future provisions are made to have the code as portable to other platforms as possible?

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To circumvent the compiler include errors, I watched what packages were installed when using wsl 2 ubuntu 22.04 then issued pip install for each thing needed for the Windows 10 python that I was using as follows...

Fri 05/10/2024 13:46:29.17
C:\Users\AverMedia>pip install click
Collecting click
Using cached click-8.1.7-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.0 kB)
Collecting colorama (from click)
Using cached colorama-0.4.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (17 kB)
Using cached click-8.1.7-py3-none-any.whl (97 kB)
Using cached colorama-0.4.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (25 kB)
Installing collected packages: colorama, click
Successfully installed click-8.1.7 colorama-0.4.6

Fri 05/10/2024 13:47:06.77
C:\Users\AverMedia>pip install joblib
Collecting joblib
Using cached joblib-1.4.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.4 kB)
Using cached joblib-1.4.2-py3-none-any.whl (301 kB)
Installing collected packages: joblib
Successfully installed joblib-1.4.2

Fri 05/10/2024 13:47:34.59
C:\Users\AverMedia>pip install regex
Collecting regex
Downloading regex-2024.5.10.tar.gz (394 kB)
---------------------------------------- 394.8/394.8 kB 911.3 kB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: regex
Building wheel for regex (pyproject.toml) ... done
Created wheel for regex: filename=regex-2024.5.10-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl size=268189 sha256=75b349b210635ead3f135c3ca2d7a32219c446e1944e340fb99dcb242a2a3c35
Stored in directory: c:\users\avermedia\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\96\22\d2\26c086e3056a45edd3b04a2d18362e212188dd7e35d6ee1e94
Successfully built regex
Installing collected packages: regex
Successfully installed regex-2024.5.10

Fri 05/10/2024 13:48:40.24
C:\Users\AverMedia>pip install tqdm
Collecting tqdm
Using cached tqdm-4.66.4-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (57 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: colorama in c:\users\avermedia\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from tqdm) (0.4.6)
Using cached tqdm-4.66.4-py3-none-any.whl (78 kB)
Installing collected packages: tqdm
Successfully installed tqdm-4.66.4

Fri 05/10/2024 13:49:11.74
C:\Users\AverMedia>pip install nltk
Collecting nltk
Using cached nltk-3.8.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.8 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: click in c:\users\avermedia\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from nltk) (8.1.7)
Requirement already satisfied: joblib in c:\users\avermedia\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from nltk) (1.4.2)
Requirement already satisfied: regex>=2021.8.3 in c:\users\avermedia\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from nltk) (2024.5.10)
Requirement already satisfied: tqdm in c:\users\avermedia\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from nltk) (4.66.4)
Requirement already satisfied: colorama in c:\users\avermedia\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from click->nltk) (0.4.6)
Using cached nltk-3.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
Installing collected packages: nltk
Successfully installed nltk-3.8.1

Fri 05/10/2024 13:49:44.53
C:\Users\AverMedia>

Thus, I have nltk installed without having msvs msvc having to compile and or link the subcomponents that would not successfully install. Yet, the actual c compiling still lacks these include file symbols that also affect a cascade of other compiling issues.