Failure during running rc.exe for Twisted on Windows 10

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When I run pip install channels or pip install twisted Twisted fails with Failed building wheel for twisted Twisted is a required dependency for Django Channels. Here is the error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1327: failure during running rc.exe
error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\BIN\\x86_amd64\\link.exe' failed with exit status 1327

I tried various installs of Visual Studio and Build Tools, but could not make any progress. How do I get twisted to build on Windows 10?

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2 Answers

I had the same problem and tried a few options, including downloading the wheels version and pip failed the same way/same error as you have. The solution for me was copying both rc.exe and rcdll.dll from

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x86

to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin

Successfully installed now. Hope that helps.

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I discovered that you can download Twisted wheels from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#twisted

Choose Twisted version, Python version, and OS version.

Download the wheel and install from local file with:

pip install path\to\Twisted-17.9.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

Twisted should then install successfully.

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