Once the installation is complete, click on "Modify":
Then click on and install the "Desktop development with C++" workload. This will install about 300 packages, currently 6.1 GB.
Once installation is complete, open up a Developer Command Prompt (windows button + type "developer command prompt") and execute the command 'cl'. This should produce no errors and produce output similar to:
now go back to your anaconda powershell prompt and run
Steps to conda/pip install in windows:
install anaconda for windows
open anaconda powershell prompt (NOT the regular anaconda prompt nor a jupyter notebook shell prompt) and follow the instructions to create and activate a clean conda environment
Download and install the C++ Build tools from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
Once the installation is complete, click on "Modify":
Then click on and install the "Desktop development with C++" workload. This will install about 300 packages, currently 6.1 GB.
Troubleshooting
See additional helpful comments in https://github.com/uber/causalml/issues/665#issuecomment-1711185708 for installing with miniconda.