Unable to install netifaces

[riteman]

Hi

I have struggled a while to install netifaces when setting up micropy-cli and Google must be sick and tired of my searching for a solution :-):

I keep getting the same error message although I have uninstalled all C++ tools and then installed the latest version: I have added a screenshot showing my currently installed version of C++

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Building wheel for netifaces (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [5 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_ext
building 'netifaces' 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 netifaces
Running setup.py clean for netifaces
Failed to build netifaces
Installing collected packages: netifaces, dpath, distlib, boltons, bleak-winrt, win32-setctime, typing-extensions, typed-config, tomli-w, tenacity, tabulate, smmap, shellingham, requests, pyudev, python-minifier, pysondb-v2, pygments, pyflakes, portalocker, nodeenv, mypy-extensions, mdurl, MarkupSafe, importlib-metadata, deprecated, colorama, cachetools, attrs, async-timeout, argcomplete, typing-inspect, tqdm, rshell, questionary, pyright, pydantic, mypy, markdown-it-py, mailbits, loguru, jsonschema, Jinja2, gitdb, click, cachier, bleak, autoflake, userpath, typer, rich, pypi-simple, libcst, GitPython, bleak-sigspec, black, upydevice, pygithub, pipx, micropython-stubber, micropy-cli
Running setup.py install for netifaces ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Running setup.py install for netifaces did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [5 lines of output]
running install
running build
running build_ext
building 'netifaces' 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: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> netifaces

[riteman]

I tried to install on another PC (Win11Pro X64) and had no issues whatsoever - my Dev PC is a Win10Pro X64. however I do not see any C++ components on the Win11 PC ??

[Sylvain-BROCAS]

Hello,
I have the same issue on a windows 11 Education X64 and using Python 3.10.11. I can't find C++ components on my PC and can't find any solution.
I got the same issue using Python 3.11.5
I've tried to use Python 3.12 and I got the error with "imp" similar to this issue
installation worked with Python 3.8.9