installation fails on Windows

[felixblang]

Installing the Library with pip3 install meraki returns the error posted below

Pip version installed pip 23.3.1

Have you reproduced the issue with the latest version of this library? And with the latest version of Python?

OS Platform Windows 10

Describe the bug

PS C:\Users\fblang> pip3 install meraki
Collecting meraki
  Downloading meraki-1.41.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (10 kB)
Collecting requests (from meraki)
  Using cached requests-2.31.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.6 kB)
Collecting aiohttp (from meraki)
  Using cached aiohttp-3.9.1-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl.metadata (7.6 kB)
Collecting attrs>=17.3.0 (from aiohttp->meraki)
  Downloading attrs-23.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.5 kB)
Collecting multidict<7.0,>=4.5 (from aiohttp->meraki)
  Using cached multidict-6.0.4.tar.gz (51 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting yarl<2.0,>=1.0 (from aiohttp->meraki)
  Downloading yarl-1.9.4-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl.metadata (32 kB)
Collecting frozenlist>=1.1.1 (from aiohttp->meraki)
  Downloading frozenlist-1.4.1-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl.metadata (12 kB)
Collecting aiosignal>=1.1.2 (from aiohttp->meraki)
  Using cached aiosignal-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (7.6 kB)
Collecting charset-normalizer<4,>=2 (from requests->meraki)
  Using cached charset_normalizer-3.3.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl.metadata (34 kB)
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5 (from requests->meraki)
  Using cached idna-3.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.9 kB)
Collecting urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 (from requests->meraki)
  Using cached urllib3-2.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.4 kB)
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests->meraki)
  Using cached certifi-2023.11.17-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.2 kB)
Downloading meraki-1.41.0-py3-none-any.whl (264 kB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 264.0/264.0 kB 5.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Using cached aiohttp-3.9.1-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (362 kB)
Using cached requests-2.31.0-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)
Downloading attrs-23.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (60 kB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 60.8/60.8 kB ? eta 0:00:00
Using cached certifi-2023.11.17-py3-none-any.whl (162 kB)
Using cached charset_normalizer-3.3.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (100 kB)
Downloading frozenlist-1.4.1-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (50 kB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 50.5/50.5 kB ? eta 0:00:00
Using cached idna-3.6-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)
Using cached urllib3-2.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (104 kB)
Downloading yarl-1.9.4-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (76 kB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 76.4/76.4 kB ? eta 0:00:00
Building wheels for collected packages: multidict
  Building wheel for multidict (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for multidict (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [74 lines of output]
      *********************
      * Accelerated build *
      *********************
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      copying multidict\_abc.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      copying multidict\_compat.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      copying multidict\_multidict_base.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      copying multidict\_multidict_py.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      copying multidict\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      running egg_info
      writing multidict.egg-info\PKG-INFO
      writing dependency_links to multidict.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
      writing top-level names to multidict.egg-info\top_level.txt
      reading manifest file 'multidict.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
      reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
      warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found anywhere in distribution
      warning: no previously-included files found matching 'multidict\_multidict.html'
      warning: no previously-included files found matching 'multidict\*.so'
      warning: no previously-included files found matching 'multidict\*.pyd'
      warning: no previously-included files found matching 'multidict\*.pyd'
      no previously-included directories found matching 'docs\_build'
      adding license file 'LICENSE'
      writing manifest file 'multidict.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
      C:\Users\fblang\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-kupfjcvf\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_py.py:207: _Warning: Package 'multidict._multilib' is absent from the `packages` configuration.
      !!

              ********************************************************************************
              ############################
              # Package would be ignored #
              ############################
              Python recognizes 'multidict._multilib' as an importable package[^1],
              but it is absent from setuptools' `packages` configuration.

              This leads to an ambiguous overall configuration. If you want to distribute this
              package, please make sure that 'multidict._multilib' is explicitly added
              to the `packages` configuration field.

              Alternatively, you can also rely on setuptools' discovery methods
              (for example by using `find_namespace_packages(...)`/`find_namespace:`
              instead of `find_packages(...)`/`find:`).

              You can read more about "package discovery" on setuptools documentation page:

              - https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/package_discovery.html

              If you don't want 'multidict._multilib' to be distributed and are
              already explicitly excluding 'multidict._multilib' via
              `find_namespace_packages(...)/find_namespace` or `find_packages(...)/find`,
              you can try to use `exclude_package_data`, or `include-package-data=False` in
              combination with a more fine grained `package-data` configuration.

              You can read more about "package data files" on setuptools documentation page:

              - https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/datafiles.html

              [^1]: For Python, any directory (with suitable naming) can be imported,
                    even if it does not contain any `.py` files.
                    On the other hand, currently there is no concept of package data
                    directory, all directories are treated like packages.
              ********************************************************************************

      !!
        check.warn(importable)
      copying multidict\__init__.pyi -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      copying multidict\py.typed -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      running build_ext
      building 'multidict._multidict' extension
      error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for multidict
Failed to build multidict
ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Expected behavior Successful installation

[TKIPisalegacycipher]

Hello @felixblang , the error provided seems to explain the issue:

      error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      [end of output]

FWIW, there is no reproducibility on this end. Please follow up if you have additional details that suggest this is an issue with the library and not the platform.