[New-bugs-announce] [issue41213] Cannot locate MSBuild.exe on PATH or as MSBUILD variable

[Amine]

New submission from Amine <tbaik.amine at gmail.com>:

I am running windows10. I HAVE to use python 3.6 for a project
downloaded it and followed the instructions in PCBuild/readme.txt
and I got the following output: (I would like to mention i checked this issue #33675 but I had no idea what is it talking about, am not using a "Buildbot")

C:\Users\Amine\Downloads\Python-3.6.11\Python-3.6.11\PCbuild>build.bat -e
Using "C:\Users\Amine\Downloads\Python-3.6.11\Python-3.6.11\PCbuild\\..\externals\pythonx86\tools\python.exe" (found in externals directory)      
Fetching external libraries...
bzip2-1.0.6 already exists, skipping.
openssl-1.0.2q already exists, skipping.
sqlite-3.21.0.0 already exists, skipping.
tcl-core-8.6.6.0 already exists, skipping.
tk-8.6.6.0 already exists, skipping.
tix-8.4.3.6 already exists, skipping.
xz-5.2.2 already exists, skipping.
Fetching external binaries...
nasm-2.11.06 already exists, skipping.
Finished.
Cannot locate MSBuild.exe on PATH or as MSBUILD variable

C:\Users\Amine\Downloads\Python-3.6.11\Python-3.6.11\PCbuild>

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components: Windows
messages: 373020
nosy: Amen8, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Cannot locate MSBuild.exe on PATH or as MSBUILD variable
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.6

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