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On Windows 10 I tried to install cx_Freeze with Python 3.5.0 |Anaconda 2.4.0 (64-bit) using:

pip install cx_Freeze

However, I got this error:

 error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

This is the error and some lines above and below the error:

 creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.5\cx_Freeze\samples\zope
 copying cx_Freeze\samples\zope\qotd.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.5\cx_Freeze\samples\zope
 copying cx_Freeze\samples\zope\setup.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.5\cx_Freeze\samples\zope
 running build_ext
 building 'cx_Freeze.util' extension
 error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

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 Failed building wheel for cx-Freeze
 Running setup.py clean for cx-Freeze
Failed to build cx-Freeze
Installing collected packages: cx-Freeze
 Running setup.py install for cx-Freeze ... error
 Complete output from command c:\users\rachin_doug\anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\RACHIN~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-sllgirs1\\cx-Freeze\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\RACHIN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-7d4trlig-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:

and

creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.5\cx_Freeze\samples\zope
copying cx_Freeze\samples\zope\qotd.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.5\cx_Freeze\samples\zope
copying cx_Freeze\samples\zope\setup.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.5\cx_Freeze\samples\zope
running build_ext
building 'cx_Freeze.util' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

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Command "c:\users\rachin_doug\anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\RACHIN~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-sllgirs1\\cx-Freeze\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\RACHIN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-7d4trlig-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\RACHIN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-sllgirs1\cx-Freeze\

I have already installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 before I had tried to install cx_Freeze.

I have tried the following ideas I found in the Internet:

I modified the msvc9compiler.py on line 241 from toolskey = "VS%0.f0COMNTOOLS" % version to toolskey = "VS120COMNTOOLS";

I creat the term HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\VC and the new string value(name=productdir, data=the path of 'vcvarsall.bat') under the term.

After trying those ideas I still got the same error.

jwpfox
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  • uninstall `cx_Freeze with Python 3.5.0 |Anaconda 2.4.0 (64-bit)` do a disk cleanup, restart and re-install it again and don't modify compilers unless you 100% sure of what you are doing – Jonas Sep 19 '16 at 07:46

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The combination of Python 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is probably not supported. The compiler requirements are stated in WindowsCompilers page: in the case of python 3.5 Visual C++ version 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015) is needed.

J.J. Hakala
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