Failed building wheel for spacy

Question

I'm trying to install spacy by running pip install spacy for python version 3.6.1 but continuously i'm getting errors like below,how to get rid of this issue? previously i was having cl.exe not found error, after that i added visual studio path in environment variables where cl.exe exists.

     Failed building wheel for spacy   Running setup.py clean for spacy   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for murmurhash ... error   Complete output from command c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\murmurhash\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpa6tzdkovpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:   running bdist_wheel   running build   running build_py ----------------------------------------   Failed building wheel for murmurhash   Running setup.py clean for murmurhash   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cymem ... error   Complete output from command c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\cymem\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpz7p6hkiwpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:   ----------------------------------------   Failed building wheel for cymem   Running setup.py clean for cymem   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for preshed ... error   Complete output from command c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\preshed\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpwppgmyp9pip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:    ----------------------------------------   Failed building wheel for preshed   Running setup.py clean for preshed   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for thinc ... error  ----------------------------------------   Failed building wheel for thinc   Running setup.py clean for thinc   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for ujson ... error   ----------------------------------------   Failed building wheel for ujson   Running setup.py clean for ujson   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cytoolz ... error   ----------------------------------------   Failed building wheel for cytoolz   Running setup.py clean for cytoolz Failed to build spacy murmurhash cymem preshed thinc ujson cytoolz Installing collected packages: murmurhash, cymem, preshed, wrapt, tqdm, toolz, cytoolz, plac, pyreadline, dill, termcolor, pathlib, thinc, ujson, regex, spacy   Running setup.py install for murmurhash ... error     C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -Ic:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\include -IC:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-joi6voav\murmurhash\murmurhash\include -Ic:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\include -Ic:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\include /EHsc /Tpmurmurhash/mrmr.cpp /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release\murmurhash/mrmr.obj /Ox /EHsc     mrmr.cpp     c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'murmurhash/mrmr.cpp': No such file or directory     error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\bin\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2      ---------------------------------------- Command "c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\murmurhash\\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\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-_j1cxej1-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-joi6voav\murmurhash\ 

Answer 1

for me, pip install --no-cache-dir spacy worked

Answer 2

A couple thoughts:

• Grab the various wheel files you need from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#spacy and install with pip install x.whl y.whl etc.
• Upgrade your version of cpp build tools to 2017 and try pip again