If you cannot install the full system-wide redistributable, you can try installing the runtime directly into your Python environment. Run the command: pip install msvc-runtime 4. Conda-Specific Fixes
is a compiled C++ extension module inside Matplotlib. It acts as a bridge between Python and FreeType 2 (hence ft2 ), an open-source font rendering library. If you cannot install the full system-wide redistributable,
It ensures that the standard C++ runtime libraries required to interpret the compiled ft2font code are present in the Windows system folders. If you cannot install the full system-wide redistributable,