from matplotlib import ft2font: “ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.”

Question

I have Windows 7.

For some reason, f2tfont.cpp does not compile when installing matplotlib (through pip), hence, the matplotlib install fails. Also, the

Answer 1

You need to have Visual Studio c++ in Your System.

Install Visual Studio 2019 with c++ distributions .

It worked perfectly for me.