For Windows installations:
While running setup.py for package installations, Python 2.7 searches for an installed Visual Studio 2008. You can trick Python to use a newer Visual Studio by setting the correct path in VS90COMNTOOLS environment variable before calling setup.py
.
If you have Visual Studio 2010 installed, execute
SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS100COMNTOOLS%
or with Visual Studio 2012 installed (Visual Studio Version 11)
SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS110COMNTOOLS%
or with Visual Studio 2013 installed (Visual Studio Version 12)
SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS120COMNTOOLS%