[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Ivan Pozdeev added the comment: What's wrong with the Python wiki link in msg263206 above? It is supposed to be _the_ guide for setting up compilers in Windows, isn't it? Ideally, this should be a link to `distutils' docs - because, you know, the wiki isn't carved in stone, either, while the

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

STINNER Victor added the comment: Maybe we can add an entry to the Python FAQ, use this link and then add a link to the Microsoft article. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Ivan Pozdeev added the comment: @haypo, as I said, it's undesirable to link to a 3rd party site in a built-in error message because its availability and content are outside the dev team's control. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

STINNER Victor added the comment: Idea: add a link to this article: https://aka.ms/vcpython or full link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/04/11/unable-to-find-vcvarsall-bat/ Related tweet from Steve Dower: https://twitter.com/zooba/status/791032320006328320 --

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Vivek Karumudi added the comment: I cannot understand the cryptic message could you please change it to something meaningful for "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat" -- nosy: +vivekkarumudi ___ Python tracker

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Ivan Pozdeev added the comment: The vsvarsall.bat message should direct to https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers rather than some 3rd-party site (even more so, one with user-generated content like SO). E.g.: "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat. A required version of MS VC++ compilers is

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Ilya Kamenshchikov added the comment: please fix spent half a day to understand I need C compiler -- nosy: +Ilya Kamenshchikov ___ Python tracker ___

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John added the comment: error message should contain more details about what went wrong and why -- nosy: +lambda ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2943 ___

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Lars H added the comment: +1 vote for fixing this problem. Matt Hickford said it very well... the error message is very cryptic, not giving the user a clue as to what domain the problem lies in. -- nosy: +Lars.H ___ Python tracker

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Steve could this be included with the work you're doing with the Windows installers? -- components: +Windows nosy: +BreamoreBoy, dstufft, eric.araujo, steve.dower ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Steve Dower added the comment: I can certainly improve this for 3.5 as part of the move to VC14 (which will require changes to distutils anyway). The installer won't touch it. For earlier Python versions, I'd quite like to see setuptools take over detection from distutils and provide the

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Mark Lawrence added the comment: How about Error: vcvarsall.bat not found - VC++ not installed or wrong version ? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2943

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Holger Waldmann added the comment: On Python 3.3.3 it is even worse. I am using Python 3.3.3 (32bit) on Windows 7 (64bit). Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express Edition is properly installed. Note: I use Python 32bit because Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express Edition includes only the 32bit compiler.

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Matt Hickford added the comment: For comparison, Ruby ships with a package manager, Gem. If a user tries to install a package with C extensions, they are given this user-friendly message: Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit from

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Matt Hickford added the comment: ( Upstreamed from Pip https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/942 ) There are lot of Python users on Windows. If they succeed in installing a package manager (a struggle), this is typically their first experience with it $ pip install numpy blah blah blah

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Ned Jackson Lovely added the comment: Improved msg per discussion. I don't see how to test this without messing with the windows registry. I am deeply reluctant to do that. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +n Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29450/issue2943.diff

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Cournapeau David da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp added the comment: Hi tarek, I can't say for sure about the only part. My experience on windows is that there are so many possible combinations that getting it right is difficult. But in any case, the raised exception is not helpful. I am a

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: Does it mean you won't get the settings for include, lib, libpath and path when you call vcvarsall.bat *only* of the SDK is not installed, or can't we have other cases ? If the latter is true, maybe a better formatted Error message where we

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Changes by Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com: -- assignee: - tarek nosy: +tarek type: - behavior versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue2943 ___

[issue2943] Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is not installed

New submission from Cournapeau David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried to build some extensions with python 2.6 (built from sources with VS 2008 express), and got some errors in the function query_vcvarsall. The offending lines are: if len(result) != len(interesting): raise