Does Gunicorn run on Windows

I have looked around for a while, and I was surprised not finding any information whether Gunicorn runs on Windows or not. Does anyone know if that is the case, and if so, where can I find some documentation about it?


Technically this is not an answer. But practically the answer I was looking for is how to run a WSGI web app (like Django) on Windows, and for those who got into this page because of that, here it is:

I'm using waitress now, very good alternative :)

Basically all you have to do is replace the gunicorn call with:

waitress-serve --listen=*:8000 myapp.wsgi:application

For typical apps this will give you the same result as running gunicorn. :) Good luck!


Gunicorn is for a UNIX environment and is incompatible with Windows. Also for more info please refer to it's docs.


Edit: there's now a plan to add Windows support. https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/524


No. Gunicorn doesn't run on Windows. It's very design is to take 'advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels'.


gunicorn used not to run directly on Windows, but work (and pending issues being resolved) mean that you can make it work on Cygwin.

See https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/407 ....

(Note: I update this answer because the bug has now been fixed)


Gunicorn does not support windows, although you can use waitress