Installing virtualenvwrapper on Windows

Question

I've installed virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper on Windows using easy_install. But mkvirtualenv is missing. I tried to search on my machine but I couldn't find it. I don't know how to solve it. Do you have any idea?

Answer 1

mkvirtualenv is a bash script so you need to run bash shell to make use of it.

mkvirtualenv is a bash function in the mkvirtualenv_bashrc script

You will need to run this from cygwin under Windows. (You can call a native python from this and not need a cygwin python)

Answer 2

virtualenv helpers for Windows command shell:

• virtualenvwrapper-win is a set of DOS-style batch files (doesn't work in PowerShell).

• env.py is a single Python2 script (blog post).

Answer 3

I've ported virtualenvwrapper to Powershell. Grab it from the BitBucket repo!

Answer 4

virtualenvwrapper is for Linux/Unix, but this post gives some virtualenv support for Windows users (Bitbucket source is here).

Answer 5

In windows we need to use virtualenv not mkvirtualenv while creating virtual environments