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| author | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2016-03-09 07:12:06 -0500 |
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| committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2016-03-09 07:12:06 -0500 |
| commit | c77db59deb74bd901a65848857fdc51233ab1bb4 (patch) | |
| tree | b2480adbf033b92940a26880fd7dda64fa81dbb2 | |
| parent | 9e753d4bfd187568c99dce5de6c2bc034aae717e (diff) | |
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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..66a775af 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -16,3 +16,12 @@ If you prefer NaCl's design, we highly recommend `PyNaCl`_. .. _`NaCl`: https://nacl.cr.yp.to/ .. _`PyNaCl`: https://pynacl.readthedocs.org + +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. |