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authorGravatar Masood Malekghassemi <atash@google.com>2016-04-27 14:59:17 -0700
committerGravatar Masood Malekghassemi <atash@google.com>2016-04-27 14:59:17 -0700
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@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@ Else system wide (on Ubuntu)...
$ sudo pip install grpcio
+If you're on Windows make sure that you installed the :code:`pip.exe` component
+when you installed Python (if not go back and install it!) then invoke:
+
+::
+
+ $ pip.exe install grpcio
+
+Windows users may need to invoke :code:`pip.exe` from a command line ran as
+administrator.
+
n.b. On Windows and on Mac OS X one *must* have a recent release of :code:`pip`
to retrieve the proper wheel from PyPI. Be sure to upgrade to the latest
version!
@@ -43,6 +53,9 @@ package named :code:`python-dev`).
$ pip install -rrequirements.txt
$ GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_WITH_CYTHON=1 pip install .
+You cannot currently install Python from source on Windows. Things might work
+out for you in MSYS2 (follow the Linux instructions), but it isn't officially
+supported at the moment.
Troubleshooting
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