Darkflow: ERROR : Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required.

[johhnry]

Hi guys,

I have a problem to get started with darkflow, I decided to install it with pip globally with pip3 install . and it says :

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools

But the link http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools no longer works.
I checked other issues but I didn't found an answer.

Thanks

[ppchaigneau]

Have the same issue.
Did you find a link that works to install it?
Thanks

[monupurohit]

Got the same issue..

darkflow>pip install .
................
building 'darkflow.cython_utils.nms' extension
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools

[monupurohit]

It worked !!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47253638/error-microsoft-visual-c-14-0-is-required-when-installing-python-package?rq=1

Please download Visual C++ Build Tools 2015
Install the visualcppbuildtools_full from 1.

>
yolo\darkflow>pip install .
Processing c:\users\monpuroh\yolo\darkflow
Installing collected packages: darkflow
Running setup.py install for darkflow ... done
Successfully installed darkflow-1.0.0

[johhnry]

@monupurohit Thanks for your answers.
Now I have another problem, it says :

error: [WinError 3] The specified path was not found : 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\PlatformSDK\\lib'

and

Command ""c:\users\joseph henry\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Joseph Henry\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-req-build-vzqvjtaj\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record "C:\Users\Joseph Henry\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-elx9rmqr\install-record.txt" --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Joseph Henry\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-vzqvjtaj\

Thanks again.

[rosenta]

install with complete CPP build from below link,

https://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/7/5f7acaeb-8363-451f-9425-68a90f98b238/visualcppbuildtools_full.exe

then it might work. I tried all solution but above one helped me.

after that, If it shows, error with exit status 1158 then do the below steps:

To fix the issue, do the next steps:

Add this to your PATH environment variables:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64

Copy these files rc.exe & rcdll.dll from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x86 to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin

[gcovillo]

For anyone still having this problem, download:
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools&rel=15

During installation, it will ask you what you want to install with it. Check the first box on the left, something about build tools, then after this there will appear more check boxes on the right. Check all of them. If you just download vs without checking all these boxes, the sdk will not download with it and more errors will appear.