error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required

Question

I have to install wordcloud in jupyter but during process 'pip install wordcloud' i stuck on error 'error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. I have read related solution on stackoverflow but there is no any satisfied answer :(

Answer 1

Binary install

use the binary-only option for pip. For example, for wordcloud:

pip install --only-binary :all: wordcloud

Answer 2

Try installing a precompiled version from here, select the wheel file for your python version, download it and then do

pip install <name of wheel file>