diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index a4849668b89..68e353d0563 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cache:
 environment:
   matrix:
     - APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: Visual Studio 2015
-      GENERATOR: Ninja
+      GENERATOR: Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64
       PYTHON: "3.6"
   APPVEYOR_SAVE_CACHE_ON_ERROR: true