How to install Python package from source on Windows
Deborah Swanson
python at deborahswanson.net
Thu May 25 17:13:30 EDT 2017
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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