Thank you for the reply, but what you are suggesting doesn’t sound reasonable (If I’m understanding you correctly?). You want me to abandon my PyCharm IDE, and my virtual python environment, and set up everything again through a command prompt and start running my code through that.
What you are suggesting might work, if all I needed was just to run this code once, but I will have no decent way of debugging my code with this approach, and any future development would be a nightmare.
Isn’t there a way to just export cl.exe as a path environment variable and have Cpp_extension find it? or some other workaround?