This repository is for the Windows installer
Work is currently ongoing to create a simple Salt Windows installer in the subfolder "salt" inside the "deps" folder, but is currently broken. For now, you can install Salt from source. Download the Salt source from github here https://github.com/saltstack/salt We've created a repository containing all the Salt dependencies for your convenience here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-windows-install
These instructions are for installing on Windows XP 32bit. You can find these packages here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-windows-install/tree/master/deps/win32-py2.7
For Windows 7 64 bit, please use the corresponding packages found here: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-windows-install/tree/master/deps/win-amd64-py2.7
#. Add "C:\\Python27" to your path
#. Choose the first option to install in Windows system directory
#. http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
#. "python distribute_setup.py"
#. "easy_install jinja2"
#. master: ipaddress or hostname of your salt-master
#. root_dir: C:\\salt\\
#. ipc_mode: tcp
#. multiprocessing: False