I am trying to download auto-py-to-exe on a different (windows) device than I usually use through pip. However when run I get the error (sorry it is so very very long):

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: 'c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\tom\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-aplljhe0\\gevent\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\tom\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-aplljhe0\\gevent\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-aplljhe0\gevent\pip-egg-info' cwd: C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-aplljhe0\gevent\ Complete output (113 lines): Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 489, in _find_latest_available_vc_ver return self.find_available_vc_vers()[-1] IndexError: list index out of range During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 154, in save_modules yield saved File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 195, in setup_context yield File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 250, in run_setup _execfile(setup_script, ns) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 45, in _execfile exec(code, globals, locals) File "C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-29et0so1\cffi-1.14.0\setup.py", line 127, in <module> HUB_PRIMITIVES = Extension(name="gevent.__hub_primitives", File "C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-29et0so1\cffi-1.14.0\setup.py", line 105, in uses_msvc include_dirs=include_dirs) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\command\config.py", line 225, in try_compile self._compile(body, headers, include_dirs, lang) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\command\config.py", line 132, in _compile self.compiler.compile([src], include_dirs=include_dirs) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 360, in compile self.initialize() File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 253, in initialize vc_env = _get_vc_env(plat_spec) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 185, in msvc14_get_vc_env return EnvironmentInfo(plat_spec, vc_min_ver=14.0).return_env() File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 843, in __init__ self.si = SystemInfo(self.ri, vc_ver) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 485, in __init__ self.vc_ver = vc_ver or self._find_latest_available_vc_ver() File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 492, in _find_latest_available_vc_ver raise distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError(err) distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-aplljhe0\gevent\setup.py", line 427, in <module> run_setup(EXT_MODULES, run_make=_BUILDING) File "C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-aplljhe0\gevent\setup.py", line 328, in run_setup setup( File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 144, in setup _install_setup_requires(attrs) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 139, in _install_setup_requires dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 716, in fetch_build_eggs resolved_dists = pkg_resources.working_set.resolve( File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 780, in resolve dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match( File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1065, in best_match return self.obtain(req, installer) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1077, in obtain return installer(requirement) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 786, in fetch_build_egg return cmd.easy_install(req) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 679, in easy_install return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 705, in install_item dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 890, in install_eggs return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1158, in build_and_install self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1144, in run_setup run_setup(setup_script, args) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 253, in run_setup raise File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\contextlib.py", line 131, in __exit__ self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 195, in setup_context yield File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\contextlib.py", line 131, in __exit__ self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 166, in save_modules saved_exc.resume() File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 141, in resume six.reraise(type, exc, self._tb) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_vendor\six.py", line 685, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 154, in save_modules yield saved File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 195, in setup_context yield File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 250, in run_setup _execfile(setup_script, ns) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 45, in _execfile exec(code, globals, locals) File "C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-29et0so1\cffi-1.14.0\setup.py", line 127, in <module> HUB_PRIMITIVES = Extension(name="gevent.__hub_primitives", File "C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-29et0so1\cffi-1.14.0\setup.py", line 105, in uses_msvc include_dirs=include_dirs) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\command\config.py", line 225, in try_compile self._compile(body, headers, include_dirs, lang) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\command\config.py", line 132, in _compile self.compiler.compile([src], include_dirs=include_dirs) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 360, in compile self.initialize() File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\distutils\_msvccompiler.py", line 253, in initialize vc_env = _get_vc_env(plat_spec) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 185, in msvc14_get_vc_env return EnvironmentInfo(plat_spec, vc_min_ver=14.0).return_env() File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 843, in __init__ self.si = SystemInfo(self.ri, vc_ver) File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 485, in __init__ self.vc_ver = vc_ver or self._find_latest_available_vc_ver() File "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\setuptools\msvc.py", line 492, in _find_latest_available_vc_ver raise distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError(err) distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Even though it does state that I need Visual Studio C++ 14.0 my computer won't install it and I have not needed it before. I checked This Stack Overflow Question but it relates to another pip install and has no answers. If the only answer is to install Visual Studio then I am kinda screwed.

3 Answers

Edit

Since this answer was posted, gevent has released several new versions, including prebuilt wheels for Python 3.8 on Windows, so the pip install gevent --pre shouldn't be necessary anymore - just run pip install auto-py-to-exe as usual and it should work.

Original answer

Allow prerelease gevent versions via

$ pip install gevent --pre
$ pip install auto-py-to-exe

Explanation: auto-py-to-exe is installable on Python 3.8 on Windows without any issues (this can be verified e.g. by running pip install auto-py-to-exe --no-deps). However, it requires bottle-websocket to be installed, which in turn has gevent dependency. gevent did not release a stable version that offers prebuilt wheels for Python 3.8 yet (this would be 1.5), so pip doesn't pick up prebuilt wheels and tries to build gevent==1.4 from source dist. Installing the prerelease 1.5 version of gevent avoids this.

In your problem, there are two problems occurred

IndexError: list index out of range.
distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required

For the first error, You can try this code

pip install --no-use-wheel --upgrade distribute

if --no-use-wheel part didn't work, use --no-binary :all: instead.

Source

For the second error, you can use

pip install --upgrade setuptools

Source

If the above methods didn't work

If your build tools further not answering to your problem, try to install build tools manually through this link.
After that you have to restart your PC or laptop.
Then try to run your code again

for installing GDAL on mac:

brew install gdaland thenpip install gdalsolved this for me