Error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.37.32822\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2

[namratam30]

Please provide us with the following information:

Getting below error for several component in requirement.txt.

**copying aiohttp.hash\hdrs.py.hash -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\aiohttp.hash
running build_ext
building 'aiohttp._websocket' extension
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for aiohttp
Building wheel for frozenlist (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for frozenlist (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [33 lines of output]
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* Accelerated build *
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After installation getting below error:

error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.37.32822\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for aiohttp
Building wheel for tiktoken (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for tiktoken (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [38 lines of output]

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[pamelafox]

It looks like you are using Python 3.12 which is a very recent release and isn't supported by all our dependencies yet. Please install Python 3.11 instead or use GitHub Codespaces.

Marking this as a duplicate of #752

[naveenvenk17]

upgrading pycocotools to 2.0.8 helped resolve this issue