Cutadapt in windows

Question

[anasofiamoreira94]

Hello, I've installed cutadapt in python 2.7, however i uninstalled it and installed the version 3.7 but can't instal it. Also, when i try to install it i get this error: error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

When i try to type cutadapt in the cmd it doesn't run, can someone help me? Thanks

[GenoMax]

Trying to do this in windows can only lead to more head/heartache.

If you have windows 10 then install WSL for Linux and go on from there.

If you want to use windows then you could look at using BBMap which is java based and will run natively on windows. Specific equivalent program is called bbduk ( http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42776 ).

[ATpoint]

Agreed. Save yourself time and effort and either get a virtual machine or separate partition on your disk to run linux natively. It does not matter too much if you use the py2 or py3 version of cutadapt, but the py3 supports multithreading.