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Update docs: dependencies don't built on Windows
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See issue Azure#219 for more. Hopefully this saves others from spending a few days on this problem. The recommended command `pip install azure-storage` does not work on Azure Web Apps, a primary environment this package is intended for, so this seems important to point out. Furthermore, `cryptography` reports that failed builds require
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cd azure-storage-python
python setup.py install

On Windows, you need to build the ``cffi`` and ``cryptography`` dependencies natively. See the documentation for those modules, or install from wheel: `cffi 1.10.0 <https://pypi.python.org/packages/0a/ad/5b5e6783d7500fb32978ff7869dc77333b0707b6ebf0d76d23b45134f9c1/cffi-1.10.0-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl#md5=0dcb0100c1941e62510e8abc13f7ee9f>`__, `cryptography 1.5 <https://pypi.python.org/packages/83/5b/59b7de8c938a1856585d91cccd648c3ff2af14ec518051b3bfd50d6a9f73/cryptography-1.5-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl#md5=896b2588347b6d2ebdba2754b035ed1a>`__ (both links are for Python 3.4 in 32-bit environments, the default in Azure Web Apps). On Azure Web Apps, you also need to change the ``cp34m`` portion of the wheel file name to ``none``.

If you are looking for Azure Service Bus or the Azure management libraries,
please visit https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python

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