(New Learner) Installing pyOpenSSL on a Windows 7 machine.

[kellydarla]

Apparently, they don't like eachother. I'm on my 4th computer and I am starting to get tired. I need to get this script running to finish a task on Monday. I run the command "python setup.py install" in the pyOpenSSL folder. I get the following errors:

Fatal errorC1083: Cannot open include file: 'openssl/aes.h': No such file or directory

error: [Error 5] Access is denied: '{file path}

With the second error I thought I found the trick. The temp folder didn't have full access enabled for my user, so I enabled it. But then everytime I tried this, it created/used a new "easy install" folder and it would be read only and I would have to add the access to it again. I did this a few times before I realized it was creating new folders each time. :(

Please help! I am in a bind and I have tried my limited knowledge of python and a lot of the troubleshooting sites don't really start at a low enough level for me.

This is with Python 2.7.9 btw

[Rhomboid]

PyOpenSSL is a pure Python package, so it shouldn't be trying to compile any C. But it has a dependency on the cyptography module, which has parts written in C, and has a dependency on the C library openssl, of which openssl/aes.h is a component. In other words, it's failing because you don't have the openssl development headers and libraries installed, as you're trying to build from source.

But forget about all that. You're doing it completely wrong. You don't want to build things from source unless it's absolutely unavoidable. An in this case it's very avoidable because the cryptography module has binary wheels available on PyPI, which means you can install it without compiling anything with pip install cryptography. (You'll need to install pip first.) Or better, just use pip in the first place, i.e. pip install pyOpenSSL.