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I was trying to install RandomWords which requires ujson, at some point in the installation I received the following notification: "error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat" I searched here, on stackoverflow, and came across some answers as the to root of this problem. In this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/8705722, near the end, the OP pointed out that Microsoft had released a C++ compiler package for Python 2.7 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266).

I installed this package but still haven't had any success in installing ujson. So far I've tried the following:

Not sure where to go from here, any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

For reference here's some relevant specs:

  • Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
  • Python 2.7 (64-bit)
  • I've been trying to install said package using pip from the command prompt (e.g. '> pip install ujson')
  • I've uninstalled all the C++ compiler packages I've tried except this one: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
  • Really don't feel like installing mingw, but I'll try it if it seems like it's the only solution.

-UPDATE-

I ended up modifying "msvc9compiler.py" and manually setting the location of vcvarsall.bat by setting the value of the vcvarsall variable to the location of that batch file. Everything compiled fine but this is not a recommended solution. I'm pretty sure the compiler version I have matches the one python 2.7 uses, but as mentioned in an answer, in another question on this topic, if these don't match it can cause problems since "the compilers will probably have incompatible C runtime libraries."

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