From 39550c71efd900f9711b098b11fd909a803c782a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonatan Heyman Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:21:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Better installation instructions for Windows --- docs/installation.rst | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index 178f73e2be..43a594c3f7 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -40,12 +40,19 @@ or:: Installing Locust on Windows ---------------------------- -The easiest way to get Locust running on Windows is to first install pre built binary packages for -gevent and greenlet and then follow the above instructions. +On Windows, running ``pip install locustio`` might fail depedning on if you have a build environment +set up correctly. In that case, the easiest way to get Locust running on windows is to first install +the pre built binary package for pyzmq (and possibly for gevent and greenlet as well). You can find an unofficial collection of pre built python packages for windows here: `http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ `_ +When you've downloaded a pre-built ``.whl`` file, you can install it with:: + + pip install pyzmq‑16.0.2‑cp36‑cp36m‑win32.whl + +Once you've done that you should be able to just ``pip install locustio``. + .. note:: Running Locust on Windows should work fine for developing and testing your load testing