compiler required?

[yivi]

I thought the idea of this builds was to be able to install without recompiling.

But when I do
pip install git+https://github.com/nwcell/psycopg2-windows.git@win64-py27#egg=psycopg2

I end up getting:

running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'psycopg2._psycopg' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

is this the expected behavior, or am I doing something wrong?

(Windows 8, 64bits, Python 2.7)

[yivi]

Just realized that what seems to be wrong is the readme.
Instead of

pip install git+https://github.com/nwcell/psycopg2-windows.git@win64-py27#egg=psycopg2

I wrote:

pip install git+https://github.com/nwcell/psycopg2-windows.git@win64-py27#egg=psycopg2-windows

And it it seems to have worked perfectly.

[robertlagrant]

@yivi that's weird, I don't think the egg name should matter at all. I think it's meant to be the same as the standard psycopg2. Having said that, I can't explain what happened when it worked :)

[ryanvalentin]

Same problem/solution for me - I swear it worked using the regular psycopg2 egg name only a couple of months ago, so I'm not sure why it's different now.