Failed building wheel for wordcloud 105

Question

Trying to install wordcloud on windows 7. Getting the following error
Failed to build wordcloud
Installing collected packages: wordcloud
Running setup.py install for wordcloud
 

Complete output from command C:\Users\nitin.agarwal\AppData\Local\Continuum
Anaconda3\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\NITIN~
1.AGA\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-r2gzu169\wordcloud\setup.py';exec(compi
le(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), fil
e, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\NITIN~1.AGA\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-gdv7
89h9-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'wordcloud.query_integral_image' extension
error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

----------------------------------------

Command "C:\Users\nitin.agarwal\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\python.exe -c
"import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\NITIN1.AGA\AppData\Local\T
emp\pip-build-r2gzu169\wordcloud\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'op
en', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install -
-record C:\Users\NITIN1.AGA\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-gdv789h9-record\install-reco
rd.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 i
n C:\Users\NITIN~1.AGA\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-r2gzu169\wordcloud

Answer 1

If you are running Python 3.5 you need VS2015. When you install it you have to make sure you select "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" under Programming Languages/Visual C++ as it is not checked by default. If you already installed VS2015, you need to do Change/Modify from Programs and Features under Control Panel. 

This worked for me. For reference, I'm running Anaconda3 2.4.1 with Python 3.5.1 x64. Hope this helped.