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Installing python package without a C++ compiler

I'm trying to get the HDBSCAN package to run on a Windows 7 machine with no C++ compiler. Installing a compiler is not an option, unfortunately. I read that some packages have precompiled wheel files that require no compiler to install. The installation notes state "Binary wheels for a number of platforms are available thanks to the work of Ryan Helinski". However, there is no mention of where those can be found. My questions are then:

  1. How do I obtain the .whl file for the HDBSCAN package?
  2. Is it possible to simply compile+install on another machine and copy it? If so, what should the machine on which I compile have in common with the one on which the code must run? Can I do it on a Windows 10 machine, or does it have to be Win7 as well, do the same Windows updates need to have been run on both, etc?
Solution

  • I ended up getting this to work by compiling on another machine and copying the package from it. It was critical that the required packages were of the same version on both machines, so I simply set up a new conda environment which had the same package versions as the target machine, then intalled hdbscan with pip there, and copied. I was worried about Windows version compatibility, but this worked even though I installed on Windows 10 and moved to a machine running Win7.