Can't build wheel (whl is required, no other workable install options)

[Jeff-Winchell]

1. First an apparent error in one of your files:
   The pycld2.egg-info\SOURCES.txt file has references to files that begin with /home/rmyeid/code/pycld2/ instead of relative paths which breaks an attempt to run 
   python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
   This problem is in the file pycld2-0.41.tar.gz 

2. After removing those strings I got further, but something else incorrect as it errored out with this error dump:
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:\Temp\pycld2\pycld2-0.41\cld2\internal -IC:\Temp\pycld2\pycld2-0.41\cld2\public "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft\PyForMLS\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft\PyForMLS\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\cppwinrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\include" /EHsc /TpC:\Temp\pycld2\pycld2-0.41\cld2\internal/cld2_generated_cjk_compatible.cc /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.5\Release\Temp\pycld2\pycld2-0.41\cld2\internal/cld2_generated_cjk_compatible.obj -w -O2 -m64 -fPIC

cl : Command line error D8003 : missing source filename

[bsolomon1124]

@aboSamoor I believe several of the open issues should be solved by uploading version 0.42 to PyPI, but the latest version there is 0.41. I do not have access to do that; would you be willing to do so or to give access via PyPI?

More info here: #23 (comment)

[Jeff-Winchell]

Background. I wanted to do a simple pip install as is listed in your docs, but that generated an error based on a hard-coded path in your source (referencing /home/rmyeid/code/pycld2)

  File "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\PYTHON_SERVICES\lib\distutils\util.py", line 110, in convert_path
    raise ValueError("path '%s' cannot be absolute" % pathname)
ValueError: path '/home/rmyeid/code/pycld2/bindings/encodings.cc' cannot be absolute

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Command ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\PYTHON_SERVICES\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\jeffw\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-hg1wsz2i\pycld2\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\jeffw\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-rexd5inq\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\jeffw\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-hg1wsz2i\pycld2\