From a7c3e2795b5dc326d15b06b483283afa29a03ed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wes McKinney Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:29:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update Sphinx install page to note that VC14 runtime may need to be installed separately when using pip on Windows Change-Id: I3d0ba98091d5d59a81f528a07740bcc405848287 --- python/doc/source/install.rst | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/python/doc/source/install.rst b/python/doc/source/install.rst index a2a6520be48..d07d9004d26 100644 --- a/python/doc/source/install.rst +++ b/python/doc/source/install.rst @@ -30,19 +30,20 @@ To install the latest version of PyArrow from conda-forge using conda: Pip --- -Install the latest version from PyPI: +Install the latest version from PyPI (Windows, Linux, and macOS): .. code-block:: bash pip install pyarrow +If you encounter any importing issues of the pip wheels on Windows, you may +need to install the `Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 +`_. + .. note:: - Currently there are only binary artifacts available for Linux and MacOS. - Otherwise this will only pull the python sources and assumes an existing - installation of the C++ part of Arrow. To retrieve the binary artifacts, - you'll need a recent ``pip`` version that supports features like the - ``manylinux1`` tag. + Windows packages are only available for Python 3.5 and higher (this is also + true for TensorFlow and any package that is implemented with modern C++). Installing from source ----------------------