python cryptography toolkit installing problem

[Sébastien SAUVAGE]

"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> wrote in message news:<af6dndQsyL2uE52jXTWcpA at speakeasy.net>...
> You probably don't have Microsoft's compiler installed, and therefore
> can't compile extension modules written in C or C++.  I don't know of
> anyone who's making Windows binaries of the toolkit available, so
> you're probably stuck, short of buying the compiler or figuring out
> how to use Borland's free compiler.

This may help.

I managed to compile C/C++ Python extensions with MinGW gcc.

My cookbook is aimed at SWIG+MinGW, but it contains a disutils tweak that may help:
http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html