Installing M2Crypto on CentOS

python installation m2crypto
Prasanna picture Prasanna · Dec 7, 2010 · Viewed 16k times · Source

I am trying to install M2Crypto on CentOS by compiling from the source. i am doing a python setup.py build But I get the following error, 

/usr/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
  warnings.warn(msg)
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'M2Crypto.__m2crypto' extension
swigging SWIG/_m2crypto.i to SWIG/_m2crypto_wrap.c
swig -python -I/usr/local/include/python2.6 -I/usr/include -includeall -o SWIG/_m2crypto_wrap.c SWIG/_m2crypto.i
SWIG/_m2crypto.i:28: Error: Unable to find 'openssl/opensslv.h'
SWIG/_evp.i:9: Error: Unable to find 'openssl/opensslconf.h'
SWIG/_ec.i:7: Error: Unable to find 'openssl/opensslconf.h'
error: command 'swig' failed with exit status 1

Please advise ...

Prasanna

Answer

abbot picture abbot · Dec 7, 2010

The following should work:

env SWIG_FEATURES="-cpperraswarn -includeall -D__`uname -m`__ -I/usr/include/openssl" python setup.py build

Edit: and openssl-devel package is of course also required.

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