How to install Python ssl module on Windows?

Question

The Google App Engine Launcher tells me:

WARNING appengine_rpc.py:399 ssl module not found. Without the ssl module, the identity of the remote host canno

Answer 1

I had to use the following modification of AndiDog's approach:

setup.py build -cmingw32
setup.py install --skip-build

Without the --skip-build option, the install would try to build again and complain about MSVC again:

error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries.
Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin installed,
you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.

Also, initially when using the build command I had a lot of errors like this:

build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\ssl\_ssl2.o:_ssl2.c:(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `_imp__PyImport_ImportModule'
build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\ssl\_ssl2.o:_ssl2.c:(.text+0x34): undefined reference to `_imp__PyObject_GetAttrString'
build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\ssl\_ssl2.o:_ssl2.c:(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `_imp__PyCObject_AsVoidPtr'

This was because I had originally installed the 64bit version of Python 2.5.4 (python-2.5.4.amd64.msi). I removed that and installed the 32bit version (python-2.5.4.msi). This includes the libpython25.a file which the build command was looking for.