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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2016-03-09 11:13:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2016-03-09 11:13:56 -0400 |
| commit | 36e2d04b56534bfef4c8dfab0134767661a6daa2 (patch) | |
| tree | f8b6c08f0eaf02b054d9aa250ab48cd87d3d73ac | |
| parent | 7a2bc40a6be4f714b882c4c5f0a174422e028bac (diff) | |
| parent | 6a070e2f768debc64c1ffbdcc285f83fa9912d5c (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #2783 from alex/install-faq
Fixed #2776 -- added an FAQ on compilation errors on OS X
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diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 10c8656b..363a350f 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -14,5 +14,14 @@ to NaCl. If you prefer NaCl's design, we highly recommend `PyNaCl`_. +Compiling ``cryptography`` on OS X produces a ``fatal error: 'openssl/aes.h' file not found`` error +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This happens because OS X 10.11 no longer includes a copy of OpenSSL. +``cryptography`` now provides wheels which include a statically linked copy of +OpenSSL. You're seeing this error because your copy of pip is too old to find +our wheel files. Upgrade your copy of pip with ``pip install -U pip`` and then +try install ``cryptography`` again. + .. _`NaCl`: https://nacl.cr.yp.to/ .. _`PyNaCl`: https://pynacl.readthedocs.org |