# Error installing crewai in Windows

**URL:** <https://community.crewai.com/t/error-installing-crewai-in-windows/2640>\
**Category:** CrewAI Community Support\
**Tags:** crewai\
**Created:** [January 10, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/error-installing-crewai-in-windows/2640 "2025-01-10T12:07:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Ashwin\_Kumar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.crewai.com/ashwin_kumar/32/1915_2.png) [@Ashwin\_Kumar](https://community.crewai.com/u/Ashwin_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/error-installing-crewai-in-windows/2640/1 "2025-01-10T12:07:48Z")

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I couldnt install crewai in Windows and Im getting error from the library `uvloop`

```auto
Collecting uvloop<0.22.0,>=0.21.0 (from litellm>=1.44.22->crewai)
  Using cached uvloop-0.21.0.tar.gz (2.5 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [18 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "E:\tiktok-meets-lms\multiagent\myenv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "E:\tiktok-meets-lms\multiagent\myenv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main    
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "E:\tiktok-meets-lms\multiagent\myenv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\LENOVO\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-20xncvhi\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\LENOVO\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-20xncvhi\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "C:\Users\LENOVO\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-20xncvhi\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
      RuntimeError: uvloop does not support Windows at the moment
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

```

How do I resolve ?

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**Author:** ![aiTravenup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@aiTravenup](https://community.crewai.com/u/aiTravenup)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/error-installing-crewai-in-windows/2640/2 "2025-01-10T13:33:08Z")

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The same issue with uvloop using windows11.

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**Author:** ![aiTravenup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@aiTravenup](https://community.crewai.com/u/aiTravenup)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/error-installing-crewai-in-windows/2640/3 "2025-01-10T17:59:35Z")

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To fix:

uv init  
uv add litellm==1.57.4  
pip install crewai --no-deps  
uv add crewai-tools

crewai create crew yourProject  
crewai run

Using VScode + Windows11:  
It works on my computer.