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| author | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2014-05-08 13:18:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2014-05-08 13:18:12 -0700 |
| commit | 07287ff1eac2ab5acf6a5f5144704b48da2c820b (patch) | |
| tree | e86b64239fa8d455a2c1ebd097b603450a8f4c8f | |
| parent | db54c81e9f376cc717a296bf2af0661abf1bc527 (diff) | |
| parent | 1548a54abb80f91325d537d936567d69fe518f72 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1025 from reaperhulk/add-faq-windows
Add FAQ entry to docs for windows OpenSSL issues
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diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 0b7bdce4..d06c1d0e 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -14,5 +14,18 @@ to NaCl. If you prefer NaCl's design, we highly recommend `PyNaCl`_. +When I try to use ``cryptography`` on Windows I get a ``cffi.ffiplatform.VerificationError`` +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This error looks something like: + +.. code-block:: console + + cffi.ffiplatform.VerificationError: importing '<some_path>.pyd': DLL load failed: + +It typically occurs on Windows when you have not installed OpenSSL. Download +a `pre-compiled binary`_ to resolve this issue. + .. _`NaCl`: http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ .. _`PyNaCl`: https://pynacl.readthedocs.org +.. _`pre-compiled binary`: https://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html |