AttributeError: 'MSVCCompiler' object has no attribute 'linker_exe'

Question

I'm trying to install AirFlow, but keep getting an error. The line - pip install apache-airflow

I installed Visual Studio with the proper packages, installed misaka, and updated both pip install version and setuptools.

The results -

Collecting apache-airflow
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fc/c9/db9c285b51a58c426433787205d86e91004662d99b1f5253295619bdb0e4/apache_airflow-1.10.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: future<0.17,>=0.16.0 in c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages (from apache-airflow) (0.16.0)
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Collecting dumb-init>=1.2.2 (from apache-airflow)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7e/32/817e967fa6c20d4568537016a2f27f00d9c6194778a41835e185e4feea0c/dumb-init-1.2.2.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: sqlalchemy~=1.3 in c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages (from apache-airflow) (1.3.6)
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Requirement already satisfied: cached-property~=1.5 in c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages (from apache-airflow) (1.5.1)
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Installing collected packages: dumb-init, apache-airflow
  Running setup.py install for dumb-init ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\Ben\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-xfdgqfty\\dumb-init\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\Ben\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-xfdgqfty\\dumb-init\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-4syt09xi\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile
         cwd: C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-xfdgqfty\dumb-init\
    Complete output (33 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_cexe
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-xfdgqfty\dumb-init\setup.py", line 135, in <module>
        distclass=ExeDistribution,
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 145, in setup
        return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
        dist.run_commands()
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\install.py", line 61, in run
        return orig.install.run(self)
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 545, in run
        self.run_command('build')
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 135, in run
        self.run_command(cmd_name)
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-xfdgqfty\dumb-init\setup.py", line 95, in run
        cmd = compiler.linker_exe + [f.name, '-static', '-o', os.devnull]
    AttributeError: 'MSVCCompiler' object has no attribute 'linker_exe'
    supports -static...
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'c:\users\ben\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\Ben\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-xfdgqfty\\dumb-init\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\Ben\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-xfdgqfty\\dumb-init\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-4syt09xi\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full command output.

Answer 1

I had the same issue. Seems like airflow 1.10.4 has a new dependency on "dumb-init" which doesn't work well on Windows.

Install Airflow 1.10.3 worked fine for me.

pip install 'apache-airflow[postgres]==1.10.3'