How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Deborah Swanson]

Michael Torrie wrote, on Thursday, May 25, 2017 1:57 PM
> 
> On 05/25/2017 02:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> >> I just fired up my Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, which has
> >> no development tools whatsoever on it (no VS, nothing). I 
> >> installed 32-bit Python 3.4 from the official python.org 
> >> download. Then I did the pip
> >> upgrade:
> > 
> > Yes XP SP3 can install Visual Studio 2015. No, XP SP2 cannot.
> 
> Huh?  What are you talking about?  Where are you reading that 
> I installed Visual Studio? I never had any version of VS 
> installed, nor was any needed.

Python will attempt to install Visual Studio, and it fails on XP SP2.

> > See my tracebacks earlier in this thread. You confirmed 
> that it works 
> > in XP SP3, only.
> 
> I didn't see a traceback where you tried to upgrade pip to 
> 9.0.1.  Did you post that?  Anyway, it also appears you're 
> not using the stock Python 3.4 from python.org, so perhaps 
> whatever version of Python you're using has been modified in 
> some way.  Perhaps the Anaconda folks have a forum or mailing 
> list that may be more helpful.
> 
> The main point, however, is that upgrading pip and installing 
> recordclass does not require visual studio at all, on any OS 
> (including
> XP) where a recordclass wheel is available.  That was my point.
> 
> As to what I confirmed, you were going on and on about how 
> Pip somehow requires Visual Studio to be installed, when in 
> fact it doesn't.  As stock Python 3.4 can apparently run on 
> SP2, pip will run also, without visual studio.
> 
> Though at the risk of drawing your ire, most programs that 
> run on XP require SP3.  I'm a bit surprised that Python 3.4 
> will even run at all on SP2.
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