diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 81bc137..20bca77 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ install:
  # BUGFIX: wdf directory was renamed to 00wdf, rename it back (see github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/414)
  #- ps: ren 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\00wdf' 'wdf'
 
- - choco install swig
+
+ - (new-object net.webclient).DownloadFile('https://sourceforge.net/projects/swig/', '..\swig.zip')
+ - Expand-Archive -LiteralPath ..\swig.zip -DestinationPath ..\swig_folder
+ - $env:Path += "..\swig_folder"
  - python -m pip install --upgrade pip
  - pip install virtualenv
  - pip install -U setuptools