Installing pynacl on Windows

Notes:

This is a work in progress wiki for installing pynacl library on Windows. These instructions have been tested on:

• Windows 8.1 Professional

Instructions

• Install Python 2.7 64-bit
• Get Visual C++ for Python 9.0 (http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/6/796EF2E4-801B-4FC4-AB28-B59FBF6D907B/VCForPython27.msi)
• Create directory c:\work
• Download libsodium-msvc-1.0.3.zip (https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/libsodium-1.0.3-msvc.zip
• Extract into c:\work
• Make a copy and rename the following files:
  • c:\work\libsodium-1.0.3-msvc\x64\Release\v110\dynamic\libsodium.dll -> sodium.dll
  • c:\work\libsodium-1.0.3-msvc\x64\Release\v110\dynamic\libsodium.lib -> sodium.lib
• Download these two files and put them in lib sodium-msvc-1.0.3\include
  • http://msinttypes.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/inttypes.h
  • http://msinttypes.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stdint.h
• Download https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/archive/v0.3.0.zip and extract to c:\work\pynacl
• Open Visual C++ 2008 64-Bit Command Prompt
  • cd c:\work\pynacl
  • set PATH=%PATH%;c:\python27;c:\python27\Scripts
  • set INCLUDE=c:\libsodium-1.0.3-msvc\include
  • set LIB=c:\work\libsodium-1.0.3-msvc\x64\Release\v140\dynamic
  • set SODIUM_INSTALL=system
  • python setup.py install [This will probably fail]
• Copy c:\work\libsodium-1.0.3-msvc\x64\Release\v140\libsodium.dll C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyNaCl-0.3.0-py2.7-win-amd64.egg\nacl\_lib
• Go back to the Command Prompt and run python setup.py install
• Test install went properly by opening python command prompt and running the following command. It should not produce any output if install was successful.
  • import nacl.signing

Options:

• Install all Windows Updates