Had the same issue (it's related to Visual Studio):

error: command 'C:\\Users\\user1\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Common\\Microso
ft\\Visual C++ for Python\\9.0\\VC\\Bin\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

From control panel - fire up "add remove software" and select modify on Visual Studio - add C++ development. Wait for install to complete, reboot.

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I have the 2022 vs code and Python 3.11. Tried installing 2022 VS builder tools, it didn't work. ... github.com/hannorein/rebound/issues/604 says you have to use WSL; apparently native Windows isn't really supported. ... But the site has instructions to install it on windows, no? I suppose it should work on windows too. ... If the author says in a bug report it's not supported, I don't see why you suppose that. ... Running pip install rebound builds REBOUND's C extensions from source as an install step.
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January 10, 2024 - Python 3.9.0 refuses to install fairseq, both editable and regular pip. error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.37.32822\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2 [end of outp...
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r/learnpython on Reddit: error code . returned non-zero exit status 2. help
March 2, 2021 -

Hi there!

So short Intro, I am making a python script/project for like a addon to the game "Elite Dangrous", To do this I am using basically a macro to accomplish the task, for those who know this game it's basically a Fleet carrier auto Route plotter for long disctance trips.

The way the script works is it uses 2 librarys called "pyautogui" and "pydirectinput" to navigate the player UI and peform actions.

I decided to make this since i learned how to read csv files in my classes a few weeks ago.

the code runs fine, but the next step is to impliment the script into another program called EDMC(https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector) , that can run plugins that are fully written in python(https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/blob/main/PLUGINS.md) I was asked to make the script a plugin so that more people can use it.

I have spent a few days trying to make it run, but I have now encountered an error that I have no idea how to fix ot troubleshoot.

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\EDMarketConnector\\EDMarketConnector.exe', '-m', 'pip', 'install', 'pydirectinput']' returned non-zero exit status 2.

2021-03-02 14:15:05.670 - ERROR - plug.load_plugins:210: Failure loading found Plugin "FCjumper"

EDMC returns a text file with error codes when it runs and this is the extract, If i should post more of it please let me know and ill give the whole thing.

Here is the link to my Git hub which has the files, It is organized with 2 modules and a load.py file.The load file has the functions required for EDMC to recognise it.

https://github.com/Gorfs/FCAutojumper

i created a new branch REDDIT for yall to see the new files plus the full log for the error, in main there are my previous files, for the files without the EDMC mods, look for the GUI.py, Macro.py and main.py, files in the main branch and run those or alternativly run the FCautojumperandfueller.py to get all the functions in one file.

IF those interested want to try out the code without the plugins bits just call the make_GUI in the load file(make sure that you have all 3 files) and have fun

The second link should have everything required to understand how it works, so If you can understand it, it should give some explanations.

here is the link to a short plugin for EDMC that I am using to understand how to make my own work ,

https://github.com/Exynom/EDMC-HourlyIncome

And also second question would be how would i make it so that It could be its own standalone .exe? whenever I launch the file directly without an IDE it does nothing(when calling the make_GUI ) but when i run it using the IDE it all works? (just a little side question).

Final notes:

I know this is probably a dumb question but after a few hours of looking and only finding things that are WAY to complicated for me to understand i got a bit demotivated. And yes i know this isnt at all good compared to the other plugins, I just wanted to make a little thing to help the comunity out.

Anyway I hope that I didnt just turn people off from helping me with this massive hump of text, (if so, sorry) and of course if anyone wants to use the code to make anything they want you have my full consent, you may edit, copy, distribute as you wish but please add me as a contributor is so. :)

Good day (or night)

P.S if you have any problems seeing the files please comment and ill try to fix it as soon as possible thanks :)

btw if you post a response you are a boss :)

edit1: forgot to say, If anyone here can't figure out what my crappy code means then post in the comments, I'll try to answer question about what I made. :)

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Non-zero exit code (2) – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
December 1, 2020 - Usage: /Users/rodelaporte/Documents/code/python/djangoProject/venv/bin/python -m pip install [options] <requirement specifier> [package-index-options] ... /Users/rodelaporte/Documents/code/python/djangoProject/venv/bin/python -m pip install [options] -r <requirements file> [package-index-options] ... /Users/rodelaporte/Documents/code/python/djangoProject/venv/bin/python -m pip install [options] [-e] <vcs project url> ... /Users/rodelaporte/Documents/code/python/djangoProject/venv/bin/python -m pip install [options] [-e] <local project path> ... /Users/rodelaporte/Documents/code/python/djangoProject/venv/bin/python -m pip install [options] <archive url/path> ... ... I met this problem last night. And it shows that it was caused by the update of pip. I solve it by run "pip install pip==20.2.2", as some say "--build-dir" does not work well in pip 20.3.
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command errored out with exit status 2 when installing a package from local folder · Issue #9251 · pypa/pip
December 9, 2020 - In my case, when I was in the directory /Users/huoqi/Desktop/transformers, I use the command pip install -e . ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 2: command: /Users/huoqi/Desktop/anaconda100/envs/rob/bin/python /Users/huoqi/Desktop/anaconda100/envs/rob/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /private/var/folders/kb/jt04fn6j7xscgh581nsk21fh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-9g5jmk9s/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- 'setuptools>=40.8.0' wheel cwd: None Complete output (22 lines): Collecting s
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I'm trying to install Stable Diffusion, but I'm getting a weird error code 2 displayed. I have followed the instructions properly, downloaded python 10.6 and github. So, I'm not sure what the problem is or how to fix it. And help would be appreciated.

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May 27, 2016 - Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/tmp.lZwwFi6TvF/pipstrap.py", line 146, in <module> exit(main()) File "/tmp/tmp.lZwwFi6TvF/pipstrap.py", line 133, in main shell=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 573, in check_output raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'pip install --no-index --no-deps -U /tmp/pipstrap-xcfZLh/pip-8.0.3.tar.gz /tmp/pipstrap-xcfZLh/setuptools-20.2.2.tar.gz /tmp/pipstrap-xcfZLh/wheel-0.29.0.tar.gz' returned non-zero exit status 2
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(verde)peter@Blizzardme:~/PycharmProjects/Verde$ pip-dump Requirement file contains argparse, but that package is not installed Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/peter/.virtualenvs/verde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 139, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/home/peter/.virtualenvs/verde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/freeze.py", line 99, in run line_req = InstallRequirement.from_line(line) File "/home/peter/.virtualenvs/verde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.3.1-py2.
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April 11, 2019 - \ Subprocess output does not appear to be encoded as cp1252 error Complete output from command c:\users\leond\anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\leond\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-y5d4iow2\cityhash\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\leond\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-iio6q8jj --python-tag cp36: running bdist_wheel running build running build_ext skipping 'src\cityhash.cpp' Cython extension (up-to-date) building 'cityhash' extension creati
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Pip should return 'error' upon failed installation attemps · Issue #21 · pypa/pip
September 24, 2017 - Currently, if 'Pip install somepackage' fails because somepackage is non-existent or does not download completely etc, pip emits some error messages, but does not set the return code to non-zero. 'Pip' or 'Pip install' set the return cod...
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