I installed the compiler package indicated here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers (section titled "Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 standalone: Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (x86, x64, ARM, ARM64)") and get a bunch of this:

d:\programs\python37\include\pystate.h(209): note: see declaration of '_ts'
src/twisted/internet/iocpreactor/iocpsupport/iocpsupport.c(7699): error C2039: 'exc_traceback':
 is not a member of '_ts'
d:\programs\python37\include\pystate.h(209): note: see declaration of '_ts'
src/twisted/internet/iocpreactor/iocpsupport/iocpsupport.c(7700): error C2039: 'exc_type': is n
ot a member of '_ts'
d:\programs\python37\include\pystate.h(209): note: see declaration of '_ts'
src/twisted/internet/iocpreactor/iocpsupport/iocpsupport.c(7701): error C2039: 'exc_value': is
not a member of '_ts'
d:\programs\python37\include\pystate.h(209): note: see declaration of '_ts'
src/twisted/internet/iocpreactor/iocpsupport/iocpsupport.c(7702): error C2039: 'exc_traceback':
 is not a member of '_ts'
d:\programs\python37\include\pystate.h(209): note: see declaration of '_ts'
error: command 'D:\\Programs\\VS\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.14.26428\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' fail
ed with exit status 2

(there was more but this is the gist of it).

Really strongly pointing back at Python 3.7 at this point but it's not where I usually live so ...

Regards,

Jeff


On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 10:53 AM Jeff Grimmett <grimmtooth@gmail.com> wrote:
I am attempting to install Twisted 18.4.0  on a clean system, fresh install of Python 3.7.  When I attempt to install from the source dist (python setup.py install) it complains I don't have the MS Visual C++ Build tools ("error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools"") and directs me to http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools - which is a 404.

"pip install twisted[windows_platform]" fails for the same reason.

Not sure where to go for a good compiler here ... any ideas? Is it too soon to adopt Python 3.7?  Should I go back to 3.6? (this is going to be a system install so I'd prefer to avoid all virtualenv entanglements)

TIA,

Jeff