preshed.maps wheel

[jimanvlad]

Hi,

I am trying to install spacy from a .whl, and one of the requirements (preshed) is causing a whole lot of trouble.

I downloaded the preshed wheel from here but unfortunately when installing it, it says that building "preshed.maps" failed given that I have no C++ compiler installed.

Are you able to provide a .whl for preshed.maps?

Vlad

[rmax]

FYI, preshed (as well as spacy) are available via conda. See

• https://github.com/conda-forge/preshed-feedstock#current-build-status
• https://github.com/conda-forge/spacy-feedstock#current-build-status

[AugustT]

I'm also having issues with this, conda install does not help as I still get

ImportError: Building module preshed.maps failed: ['DistutilsPlatformError: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat\n']

[adrianeboyd]

Just cleaning up old issues: binary packages are available for most platforms on pypi and conda-forge and the most recent releases hopefully make source installs easier, although you would still need a compiler for the source install.