Building Python 3.7.1 - SSL module failed

Question

Building Python 3.7 from source runs into following error:

Failed to build these modules:
_hashlib              _ssl                                     

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Answer 1

On CentOS / Linux 2 if you install openssl using

sudo yum install -y openssl-devel

then the library is installed to /usr/local/lib64, and you can configure Python as follows:

./configure --enable-shared --with-openssl=/usr/local/lib64

there are step-by-step instructions here: How to Install Latest (2020) Django to AWS EC2 Linux 2 Instance and Serve w/ Apache Hello World