when installing yara-python on Windows 10 OS, there's an error when installing the setup.py

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#199 opened on Feb 27, 2022 3 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 30/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: c, python
Domain: build-system, operating-systems

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Reproduce the pip install yara-python failure on Windows 10 and start by inspecting setup.py and the build_ext step shown in the report. Check how the package expects Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater to be provided. Done means establishing a supported installation path or documenting the required Windows build prerequisites clearly.

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Description

when installing yara-python using pip method, I get this error, seems like that setup.py is not working on Windows,

pip install yara-python
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting yara-python
  Using cached yara-python-4.1.3.tar.gz (426 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for yara-python, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: yara-python
  Running setup.py install for yara-python ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Running setup.py install for yara-python did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      C:\Program Files\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:717: UserWarning: Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead
        warnings.warn(
      running install
      running build
      running build_ext
      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: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> yara-python

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.

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