Running "docker-compose up" throws "No module named fnctl" error on Windows

Setting:

• Windows 7
• Docker v1.6.0 installed as part of Boot2docker
• Docker-compose v1.2.0

I installed docker-compose using pip :

pip install docker-compose

      

        
        
        
      

    

And it seemed to have been successfully installed. However, when I try to run: docker-compose

up in the directory where I have the docker-compose.yml definition , I get the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Python27\Scripts\docker-compose-script.py", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.2.0', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose
')()
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources.py", line 351, in load_entry
_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources.py", line 2363, in load_entr
y_point
    return ep.load()
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources.py", line 2088, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\compose\cli\main.py", line 11, in <module>

    import dockerpty
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\dockerpty\__init__.py", line 17, in <modul
e>
    from dockerpty.pty import PseudoTerminal
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\dockerpty\pty.py", line 21, in <module>
    import dockerpty.io as io
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\dockerpty\io.py", line 18, in <module>
    import fcntl
ImportError: No module named fcntl

      

        
        
        
      

    

I understand from various non-docker posts that this error occurs because fcntl is native Linux and obviously my python windows distribution is missing it. However, the workarounds people talk about are not necessarily my personal business.

I've also tried the following steps here: https://github.com/docker/compose/releases

I downloaded the linux archive using curl (did not have uname permission) and gave the correct execution, but still:

$ docker-compose -version
./docker-compose: ./docker-compose: cannot execute binary file

      

        
        
        
      

    

Does anyone know of workarounds / actually functional ways to install docker-compose on VM Boot2docker?