How to install Visual C++ Build tools?

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Jordi picture Jordi · Nov 9, 2016 · Viewed 226.1k times · Source

I need to install Visual C++ Build Tools. When I've download installer, I've tried to install it, however it's telling me I need to uninstall VS 2015!

How can I solve it? Why is Visual C++ Build tools telling me it needs to remove current VS 2015 installation?

Answer

Aaron Belchamber picture Aaron Belchamber · Jan 10, 2019

I just stumbled onto this issue accessing some Python libraries: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools". The latest link to that is actually here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019

When you begin the installer, it will have several "options" enabled which will balloon the install size to 5gb. If you have Windows 10, you'll need to leave selected the "Windows 10 SDK" option as mentioned here.

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I hope it helps save others time!

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