autoconf error on Windows

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> PyCrypto's install is giving an autoconf error on Windows, whether I
> install from the git repo or normally.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
>    cmd_obj.run()
>
>  File "C:\Projects\satchmo_test\satchmo_test\src\pycrypto\setup.py",
> line 274, in run
>    raise RuntimeError("autoconf error")
>
> RuntimeError: autoconf error
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Command C:\Python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools;
> __file__='C:\\Projects\\satchmo_test\\satchmo_test\\src\\pycrypto\\setup.py';
> exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,
> 'exec'))" develop --no-deps failed with error code 1
> Full output: http://pastebin.com/Dp3aw077

Judging by the earlier "'sh' is not recognized as an internal or
external command, operable program or batch file." error message and
after scanning thru the setup.py, sounds like you need to have MinGW
(http://www.mingw.org ) installed. FWICT, there don't seem to be any
current Windows binaries for PyCrypto.

Cheers,
Chris