Chmod not recognized as internal or external command

Question

Trying to get pycrypto installed in Windows. At the command prompt, I type python setup.py build. Things start out ok, but when it gets to 'running build_configure', I get this error message and things come to a halt:

chmod not recognized as internal or external command

I tried downloading and installing chmod, but that didn't change anything.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

I was running this from a Windows cmd prompt. I ran it from MinGW and it got past this part.