diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a78ae461..4dafb764 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -30,5 +30,7 @@ resources/user/*
 
 *.exe
 
+get-pip.py
+
 venv
 test
diff --git a/docs/BUILDING.md b/docs/BUILDING.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd0233f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/BUILDING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Running from source
+
+1. Get [python](http://python.org/downloads)
+1. Get the [Door Randomizer Unstable source code](https://github.com/Aerinon/ALttPDoorRandomizer/archive/DoorDevUnstable.zip)
+1. Install Platform-specific dependencies
+1. Run `DoorRandomizer.py` for command-line script
+1. Run `Gui.py` for user interface
+
+## Platform-specific dependencies
+
+### Windows
+
+* Run `resources/ci/common/local_install.py`
diff --git a/resources/ci/common/get_get_pip.py b/resources/ci/common/get_get_pip.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9b69930d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/ci/common/get_get_pip.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import common
+import urllib.request, ssl
+import subprocess # do stuff at the shell level
+
+env = common.prepare_env()
+
+def get_get_pip():
+  print("Getting pip getter!")
+  #make the request!
+  url = "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py"
+  context = ssl._create_unverified_context()
+  req = urllib.request.urlopen(url, context=context)
+  got_pip = req.read().decode("utf-8")
+
+  with open("get-pip.py", "w") as g:
+    req = urllib.request.Request(
+      url,
+      data=None,
+      headers={
+        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36"
+      }
+    )
+    req = urllib.request.urlopen(req, context=context)
+    data = req.read().decode("utf-8")
+    g.write(data)
+
+  # get executables
+  #  python
+  #   linux/windows: python
+  #   macosx:        python3
+  PYTHON_EXECUTABLE = "python3" if "osx" in env["OS_NAME"] else "python"
+  print("Getting pip!")
+  subprocess.check_call([PYTHON_EXECUTABLE,"get-pip.py"])
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ try:
+   import pip
+ except ImportError:
+    get_get_pip()
diff --git a/resources/ci/common/install.py b/resources/ci/common/install.py
index 8cd40df2..70d10202 100644
--- a/resources/ci/common/install.py
+++ b/resources/ci/common/install.py
@@ -1,27 +1,30 @@
 import common
-import os         # for env vars
 import subprocess # do stuff at the shell level
 
 env = common.prepare_env()
 
-# get executables
-#  python
-#   linux/windows: python
-#   macosx:        python3
-#  pip
-#   linux/macosx: pip3
-#   windows:      pip
-PYTHON_EXECUTABLE = "python3" if "osx" in env["OS_NAME"] else "python"
-PIP_EXECUTABLE = "pip" if "windows" in env["OS_NAME"] else "pip3"
-PIP_EXECUTABLE = "pip" if "osx" in env["OS_NAME"] and "actions" in env["CI_SYSTEM"] else PIP_EXECUTABLE
+def run_install():
+  # get executables
+  #  python
+  #   linux/windows: python
+  #   macosx:        python3
+  #  pip
+  #   linux/macosx: pip3
+  #   windows:      pip
+  PYTHON_EXECUTABLE = "python3" if "osx" in env["OS_NAME"] else "python"
+  PIP_EXECUTABLE = "pip" if "windows" in env["OS_NAME"] else "pip3"
+  PIP_EXECUTABLE = "pip" if "osx" in env["OS_NAME"] and "actions" in env["CI_SYSTEM"] else PIP_EXECUTABLE
 
-# upgrade pip
-subprocess.check_call([PYTHON_EXECUTABLE,"-m","pip","install","--upgrade","pip"])
+  # upgrade pip
+  subprocess.check_call([PYTHON_EXECUTABLE,"-m","pip","install","--upgrade","pip"])
 
-# pip version
-subprocess.check_call([PIP_EXECUTABLE,"--version"])
-# if pip3, install wheel
-if PIP_EXECUTABLE == "pip3":
-	subprocess.check_call([PIP_EXECUTABLE,"install","-U","wheel"])
-# install listed dependencies
-subprocess.check_call([PIP_EXECUTABLE,"install","-r","./resources/app/meta/manifests/pip_requirements.txt"])
+  # pip version
+  subprocess.check_call([PIP_EXECUTABLE,"--version"])
+  # if pip3, install wheel
+  if PIP_EXECUTABLE == "pip3":
+  	subprocess.check_call([PIP_EXECUTABLE,"install","-U","wheel"])
+  # install listed dependencies
+  subprocess.check_call([PIP_EXECUTABLE,"install","-r","./resources/app/meta/manifests/pip_requirements.txt"])
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  run_install()
diff --git a/resources/ci/common/local_install.py b/resources/ci/common/local_install.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8cde8348
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/ci/common/local_install.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import install
+import get_get_pip
+
+# get & install pip
+get_get_pip.get_get_pip()
+
+# run installer
+install.run_install()