autoconf error on Windows

[Alec Taylor]

Thanks, but I already have MinGW installed and in PATH.

C:\>where g++
C:\libraries\MinGW\bin\g++.exe
C:\libraries\perl\c\bin\g++.exe

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> 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