Matt Hickford added the comment:
( Upstreamed from Pip https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/942 )
There are lot of Python users on Windows. If they succeed in installing a
package manager (a struggle), this is typically their first experience with it
$ pip install numpy
blah blah blah
Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
The misery is compounded by the cryptic error message. They don't know whether
the problem with their computer, the specific package, or pip generally. Let
alone how to fix it.
You and I know this happens because the package install involves building some
C code from source and the user doesn't have a C compiler installed. The fix is
to install mingw32 (or Visual Studio) and edit distutils.cfg to specify to use
that compiler.
Thus, it would be really helpful to print a message after 'error: unable to
find vcvarsall.bat' such as
> Installing this package requires a C compiler. To fix this error, follow
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/2817869/284795
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