On Windows, Visual Studio needs to be installed first. To do this, visit https://dev.windows.com/, Sheet Click Downloads and look for Visual Studio Community, a set of free Windows development tools. Please download and run The installer. Next, you need to download the matplotlib installer. To do this, visit https://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib/, And look for a wheel file (file with a .whl extension) that matches the version of Python you're using. For example, if you are using For 32-bit Python 3.5, you need to download matplotlib-1.4.3-cp35-none-win32.whl.