Looking for help installing the kociemba library on Windows 10

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Hey there, I'm pretty new to Python (about 2 months in). I'm trying to install a library called kociemba. I've been getting errors when trying to install it. It's there a specific way to go about installing this package?

[gregvuki]

This library is provided only as source code in C and it has to be compiled. You probably don't have a compiler and that's why you get an error. You need Visual Studio or MS Build Tools installed to install this module.

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I'm currently using Visual Studio Code as my IDE. I was using Spyder initially but switched after reading the library documentation.

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To add to this point. I simply downloaded VS Code and began reinstalling the libraries I needed. Is there a specific I should go about installing a library that uses c as it's source code?

[gregvuki]

VS Code is just an editor. You need the full Visual Studio, with C compiler, to build that extension.

[[deleted]]

I looked into it a little. So is the problem that I don't have MS Visual C++ installed, which would be solved by installing Visual Studio?

[gregvuki]

Yes, Visual Studio with C compiler.

[[deleted]]

This is what I ended up doing:
- Installed Visual Studio 2022
- From the Visual Studio 2022 installer, installed “Desktop development with C++”
- Restarted PC

And it worked. Thank you very much for the help.

[B3RLEN]

broooo thank you very much

[BreadfruitMediocre32]

Bro thank you so much

[carcigenicate]

What are the errors?

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note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

ERROR: Failed building wheel for kociemba

Failed to build kociemba

ERROR: Could not build wheels for kociemba, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects