If you don't have python-dev and are trying to build crypto, throw an error.

[jgeewax]

Right now we leave people guessing when a gcc command fails.

Let's check for pycrypto and pyopenssl, and if they're not there, make sure that python-dev is installed so that the compilation won't fail. Otherwise, say you need to install the dev Python stuff or the actual packages for openssl and crypto...

(linux specific)

Let's also check into this for Windows and Mac - maybe they have their act together and do this properly...

[kleyow]

Can't seem to replicate this error by purging python-dev, but I have encountered it before when I was missing python-dev.

[tseaver]

@dhermes this one or #124 might be relevant to your problem with tox on MacOS.

[dhermes]

Thanks. Issue has been resolved, the python-dev dependence is resolved out of the box on OS X.

[tseaver]

@jgeewax would a section in README.rst titled Dependencies solve this? It would suggest installing python-dev or python-devel (based on distro) on Linux, and suggest / link binaries for Windows (maybe MacOS?).

I really don't think setup.py should try do install anything outside of what ``setutools` does by default.

[dhermes]

I agree.

This is a Python community issue; we shouldn't reinvent the "wheel" on this one.

@jgeewax, I opened #382 to cover this. Please reopen if you think this is not sufficient.