An error occurred in the secure channel support

[fritsderaad]

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Description

• Platform information (e.g. Ubuntu Linux 16.04): Windows 7 professional
• OS architecture (e.g. amd64): 64 bit
• pyenv version: 1.1.2
• Python version: current 3.6.2 32 bit
• C Compiler information (e.g. gcc 7.3): ?
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Hi ,
Installed pyenv 1.1.2 succesfully. Now wanted to create new environment 3.7.2-amd64 but failed. Tried different versions including 32 bit and 3.7.0 but all same failure:
It starts downloading but within a second new line shows up: An error occurred in the secure channel support. Browsed the internet for two hours to find solution, no luck. Did not find anything related to this on you git, so now I'm posting the question. Thanks

[joshfriend]

Please follow the issue template and provide the items requested

[fritsderaad]

Sorry, bit of a newby, filled out the template with everything I knew. How do I determine the C Compiler on my Windows 7 pro machine? is that Visual Studio 2017? Tried to put on debugging but on suggested code I got PYENV_DEBUG is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file

[chrahunt]

It looks like you're trying to build a native Python on Windows, which I don't believe is supported. We would try to support compiling with Windows Subsystem for Linux as a target. @yyuu can you confirm?

[yyuu]

pyenv doesn't support Windows natively as it is totally depending on bash and C compiler toolchain for *nix.

However, Windows 10 now supports WSL and it is allowing users to install Linux subsystem into their installation (w/ some limitations especially for daemons). I have already confirmed that pyenv can just work as is on WSL Ubuntu 18.04 image at least. What is necessary to use pyenv on WSL is equivalent to what is necessary on ordinary GNU/Linux, in general. Anyway without pasting full (debug)? output, no one would be able to find out the cause of the issue.

[chrahunt]

@fritsderaad, to summarize: pyenv is supported on WSL on Windows. You can read about WSL here. For instructions, just follow any instructions you see in the pyenv README or the wiki for "Ubuntu" and you should be OK.