SNOW-2859009: Unable to Install Snowflake Connector Python Wheels for Python 3.12.8

[genZSwiftly]

Hey there, appreciate if you could assist on this issue.

Background:

• We have an attempt to connect Snowflake with our IDE so that we can manipulate data stored in Snowflake using Python.

What We Have Done:

• Initially we installed the latest Python version (i.e., Python 3.14.0).

• We read that there is no wheels for version 3.14.0 yet, thus we downgraded to Python 3.12.8 because it is the most stable version and a cp312 file is available in the library.

• The Python version downgraded is successful. We confirmed by running python --version command and it showed Python 3.12.8.

• We downloaded the entire snowflake-connector-python ZIP folder locally.

• We ran the following commands in our virtual environment folder:

  cd snowflake-connector-python
python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel build
python -m build --wheel .

Now We Puzzle

We believe that we have done all the steps correctly, and yet we can't figure out why command prompt returns the following error:

Appreciate if you could shine us with some insights and what details that we might have missed.

[sfc-gh-sghosh]

Hi @genZSwiftly ,

Thanks for raising the issue.

The error you’re seeing is because you’re compiling C/C++ extensions from source on Windows. The Snowflake Python Connector ships prebuilt wheels for Python 3.12, so you don’t need Visual C++ or a local build in most cases. The error is expected for local builds of native extensions.

The recommended way is to install from PyPi with pip.

Try following commands, I checked in Mac
`python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -U pip wheel
python -m pip install --only-binary=:all: "snowflake-connector-python>=4"

`