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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2014-05-08 12:41:45 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2014-05-08 12:41:45 -0500 |
| commit | c23d5761d7dbc668c9e7699c0c4e91449d28673a (patch) | |
| tree | 30c48140e53284b46a8e45aaec3caf6524b7fe7c | |
| parent | f50aad13089ba7d53b3b668eb096d5485814fbd8 (diff) | |
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add faq entry to describe the error if a windows user doesn't install openssl
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diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 0b7bdce4..54927e66 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 the user has 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 |