PyCrypto Windows binaries incomplete

[Wernight]

Pycrypto is used by Fabric among others. However Windows binaries are not provided or are incomplete. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml for example doesn't contain the OSRNG module (among others).

ActivePython should have a working version but that's commercial (yes PyCrypto is only in the commercial version).

Most development are still done on Windows, it would be really helpful to have PyCrypto provide Winodws binaries and even better if they could come via PIP.

[Darsey Litzenberger (dlitz)]

Thanks. If you'd like to contribute patches to fix build issues on Windows, or to add a "HOW TO BUILD ON WINDOWS" document, I'm willing to merge them.

[Wernight (werner-beroux)]

I found ActivePython x86 seem to provide Fabric binaries in the community edition, only x64 doesn't.

It should be built with Visual Studio 2008 as it should be the same a Python but I heard people compile it with other tools as well. I can't tell how to build. What I can tell is how to retrieve from ActivePython binaries and make it portable.

[Byun, Kyuhong aka Francisco (combacsa)]

Maybe this article contains some parts of "HOW TO BUILD ON WINDOWS". It's written in Korean though ...

http://imp17.com/tc/myevan/204

[Geert Jansen (geertj)]

Dwayne, it would be great if you could provide windows binaries on the package index. Below are instructions on how to build on Windows. I am doing this on Windows XP. That should produce a binary that can be used on Windows 7 and 8 as well, IIRC.

1. Install MinGW from www.mingw.org. I downloaded the "mingw-get-inst-20120424" installer. Then I ran the installer selecting C:\MinGW as the installation target directory. In the installer, I only selected to download the C compiler, and nothing else.
2. Install a binary Python from www.python.org. I downloaded 2.7.3 and installed into C:\Python.
3. Install the following patch to distutils https://gist.github.com/4466320. It fixes an issue where distutils will use a compiler option that does not exist anymore.
4. Do a "python setup.py bdist_wininst". This will result in a executable windows installer in the "dist" directory.
5. Repeat steps 2..4 for every Python version that you want to support.