Unable to Install pycrypto

Question

ValueError: invalid version number '2.20.51.20100613'

I'm having problems installing pycrypto. Tried package manager: pip & easy_install, didn't work. Tried to manually install it via "python setup.py install", the same error like the above appears.

I've followed the instructions here and got stuck at installing pycrypto after installing "mingW" gcc, g++ and msys-base (MSYS shell environment)

Not really sure what to do now after several days of trying.

Here's the complete output of the error:

C:\Users\Denz\Desktop>pip install pycrypto
Downloading/unpacking pycrypto
  Running setup.py egg_info for package pycrypto
Installing collected packages: pycrypto
  Running setup.py install for pycrypto
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "", line 1, in ?
      File "C:\Users\Denz\Desktop\build\pycrypto\setup.py", line 340, in ?
        core.setup(**kw)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\core.py", line 149, in setup
        dist.run_commands()
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "c:\python24\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.14-py2.4.egg\setuptools
\command\install.py", line 53, in run
        return _install.run(self)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 506, in run
        self.run_command('build')
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run
        self.run_command(cmd_name)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 253, in run
        force=self.force)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 1177, in new_compiler
        return klass (None, dry_run, force)
      File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 292, in init


    CygwinCCompiler.__init__ (self, verbose, dry_run, force)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 83, in __init__
    self.gcc_version, self.ld_version, self.dllwrap_version = \
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 424, in get_versions
    ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in __init__
    self.parse(vstring)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse
    raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring
ValueError: invalid version number '2.20.51.20100613'

Answer 1

You can get working windows binaries on this page.