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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-01-28 07:33:50 -0800
committerPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-01-28 07:33:50 -0800
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Merge pull request #518 from longaccess/master
document building with custom OpenSSL installation on windows
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@@ -17,7 +17,16 @@ You can install ``cryptography`` with ``pip``:
.. note::
If you're on Windows you'll need to make sure you have OpenSSL installed.
- There are `pre-compiled binaries`_ available.
+ There are `pre-compiled binaries`_ available. If your installation is in
+ an unusual location set the ``LIB`` and ``INCLUDE`` environment variables
+ to include the corresponding locations. For example:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ C:\> \path\to\vcvarsall.bat x86_amd64
+ C:\> set LIB=C:\OpenSSL-1.0.1f-64bit\lib;%LIB%
+ C:\> set INCLUDE=C:\OpenSSL-1.0.1f-64bit\include;%INCLUDE%
+ C:\> pip install cryptography
Why a new crypto library for Python?