diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index a2455c242..2e1b3ae44 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ users with pip 8 or above you only need one step: $ pip install cryptography -If you want to build cryptography yourself or are on an older OS X version +If you want to build cryptography yourself or are on an older OS X version, cryptography requires the presence of a C compiler, development headers, and the proper libraries. On OS X much of this is provided by Apple's Xcode development tools. To install the Xcode command line tools (on OS X 10.9+)