PyCrypto builds neither with MSVC nor MinGW

Alec Taylor alec.taylor6 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 11:42:08 EST 2012


A 4 year old compiler?

I also have MSVC11 installed. Can the python project add support for
that so that we aren't waiting 5 years between compiler support?

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Am 05.02.2012 15:40, schrieb Alec Taylor:
>> PIL, PyCrypto and many other modules require a C compiler and linker.
>>
>> Unfortunately neither install on my computer, with a PATH with the following:
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC
>> C:\libraries\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
>> C:\libraries\MinGW
>> C:\Python27\Scripts
>
> MSVC 10 is not supported, you need VC 9 (2008).
>
> Christian
>
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