Srabasti opened a new issue, #56566: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/56566
### What do you see as an issue? On attempting to install Airflow 3.1 on Windows 11 Pro using documentation link below: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/installation/installing-from-pypi.html by running command: pip install "apache-airflow[celery]==3.1.0" --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-3.1.0/constraints-3.10.txt"; am getting error as below: raise DistutilsPlatformError( ...<3 lines>... ) distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/ [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ERROR: Failed building wheel for grpcio Building wheel for sqlalchemy (pyproject.toml) ... done Created wheel for sqlalchemy: filename=sqlalchemy-1.4.54-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl size=1557723 sha256=a8b746cccbc74ffc1f871ca061f5a0307f9573a9eb77081ee6b894cf83cad70c Stored in directory: c:\users\sraba\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\66\d4\be\4c07d30f4e85a3d3789094f906c6050425b0183674c46548d0 Successfully built dill sqlalchemy Failed to build grpcio error: failed-wheel-build-for-install × Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects ╰─> grpcio Log attached in [Airflow_Installation_1sttry_grpcio_error_10112025.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/22869461/Airflow_Installation_1sttry_grpcio_error_10112025.txt) As a next step, I installed vs_BuildTools and "Desktop development with C++", using link below: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/ Post installation, confirmed that installation is complete as per screenshot below. <img width="1266" height="686" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/40b1d986-50fd-4d96-813e-b5befaf56058"; /> After rerunning command below: by running command as below: pip install "apache-airflow[celery]==3.1.0" --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-3.1.0/constraints-3.10.txt"; am getting error as below: raise CompileError(msg) distutils.compilers.C.errors.CompileError: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.44.35207\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 1 [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ERROR: Failed building wheel for grpcio Failed to build grpcio error: failed-wheel-build-for-install × Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects ╰─> grpcio ### Solving the problem Appreciate any inputs to overcome this error, in case someone already encountered. Once the fix is found, I can submit PR for documentation bug fix. ### Anything else Logs already included above. I looked up for grpcio errors in StackOverflow using link below for any specific errors, however not found anything useful yet. https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bairflow%5Dgrpcio&s=aa4332d0-832e-4e83-aaca-dff88da1a175&newreg=b4bd086ba056410fac32007cb5016671 ### Are you willing to submit PR? - [x] Yes I am willing to submit a PR! ### Code of Conduct - [x] I agree to follow this project's [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
