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

This solves my problem

As a workaround until matplotlib 3.1.1 is released, you could install this package msvc-runtime using the following command:

pip install msvc-runtime