Hi Matthew,

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 9:35 AM Matthew Poletiek via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
> Good news. I got this running in windows this morning.
>
> I had to use the chirpwx.py script to bring it up.
>
> I installed python3.9 for windows and used pip to bring in all the dependencies.
>
> pip install pypiwin32
> pip install wxpython
> pip install six
> pip install future
> pip install pyserial
>
> Still working on getting a download from my radio though. Issue might be related to the fact I'm running windows 10 in a VM. Continuing to test, but it looks like we have a path forward in windows.
>

I run CHIRP in Windows VMs (Win 7 mostly but Win 10 occasionally).
Since most of my programming cables have a Prolific chip (unauthorized
copy) in them, I had to perform the requisite "download, install and
select" of the old Prolific v3.2.0.0 device driver in each VM (the
same as I must do in a physical machine running windows).

Jim KC9HI