installing requirements says "Failed building wheel for insightface"

[NicholasIGuess]

when running pip install -r requirements.txt i get this error: "error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/"

however, i definitely have it installed, so i guess it's just not recognizing it? i am on a win11 device. all the other required packages installed fine, it's just this one that isn't working correctly.

anyone else have this error/know how to solve it? all help is appreciated.

thank you!

[AdnaneAs]

insightface contains Cython/C++ code, when you install it via pip, it tries to compile that native code , but the system doesn’t have the required C++ build tools.
for me , i fix it by installing the build tools from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
then pip install --upgrade cython
that works for me , hope you find this helpful

[NicholasIGuess]

hey, thanks for the suggestion! unfortunately, that didn't work. it just gives me the same error, screenshot below.
any other ideas?