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Document OS X installation #1700

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reaperhulk opened this issue Feb 25, 2015 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2109
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Document OS X installation #1700

reaperhulk opened this issue Feb 25, 2015 · 1 comment · Fixed by #2109
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We implicitly assume our OS X users already have a compiler and the ffi headers (xcode-select --install). This is sometimes an unsafe assumption, especially as our project gets more popular. Let's document how to install on OS X.
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jbolda commented Feb 25, 2015

The specific error code snippet is below. It fails on the cffi dependency.

    c/_cffi_backend.c:13:10: fatal error: 'ffi.h' file not found

    #include <ffi.h>

             ^

    1 error generated.

    error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1

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add some documentation around the requirement for xcode cli tools on mac reaperhulk/cryptography
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