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| author |  Masood Malekghassemi <atash@google.com> | 2016-04-27 14:59:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Masood Malekghassemi <atash@google.com> | 2016-04-27 14:59:17 -0700 |
| commit | d06e9291cb10c5757e1b7852248af341c2cd3390 (patch) | |
| tree | 73554bb321b2b6cbd47b8bc36e23f80cb5ac9217 /src/python | |
| parent | cec42984a0374465de9b2626f16b0efa960a66d0 (diff) | |
Add Windows-specifics to Python docs
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/python/grpcio/README.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/python/grpcio/README.rst b/src/python/grpcio/README.rst index 33a462b66f..cb3f6b87fe 100644 --- a/src/python/grpcio/README.rst +++ b/src/python/grpcio/README.rst @@ -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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |