'Building Python 3.7.1 - SSL module failed
Building Python 3.7 from source runs into following error:
Failed to build these modules:
_hashlib _ssl
Could not build the ssl module!
Python requires an OpenSSL 1.0.2 or 1.1 compatible libssl with X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host().
LibreSSL 2.6.4 and earlier do not provide the necessary APIs, https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/381
I tried so many workarounds from other stackoverflow-questions, but it doesnt work. I build newest OpenSSL and LibreSSL from source. OpenSSL path is: "/usr/local/ssl" with version OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl/
(./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib")
make
make altinstall
My system: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Any ideas?
Solution 1:[1]
I solved it after 3 days only because of this blog. with python 3.7.4 openssl 1.1.0 centOS 6.
here is the summary :
First, some prerequisites:
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev
use yum instead of apt-get if using centos linux.
Install ssl 1.0.2 or higher.
cd /usr/src
curl https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2o.tar.gz | tar xz
cd openssl-1.0.2o
./config shared --prefix=/usr/local/
sudo make
sudo make install
We will need to pass /usr/src/openssl-1.0.2o into the Python configure script.
mkdir lib
cp ./*.{so,so.1.0.0,a,pc} ./lib
Now proceed with installing Python:
cd /usr/src
sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tgz
sudo tar xzf Python-3.7.0.tgz
cd Python-3.7.0
./configure --with-openssl=/usr/src/openssl-1.0.2o --enable-optimizations
sudo make
sudo make altinstall
To test it out, run python3.7 and input:
import ssl
ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
Hope it helps!
Solution 2:[2]
Compiling openssl
Download your openssl tarball, unzip, and then ensure that the install directory is named
openssl
.
I placed mine in /usr/local/openssl, so I'll use that in my example.
sudo mv openssl-1.0.2u /usr/local/openssl && cd /usr/local/openssl
sudo make distclean
sudo ./config -fPIC -shared
sudo make && sudo install
Now, add the openssl shared library to your PATH.
vim ~/.profile Go export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/openssl/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" :wq
Compiling Python3
The key here is understanding that the path you define with
--with-openssl=
is where Python looks for /openssl/lib. You need to give Python the parent directory of the openssl directory.
That means that if you set
--with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl
yourmake install
will fail even though themake
logs show that openssl is fine!
--enable-optimizations
is irrelevant but recommended - longer make for 10% faster Python code is a good tradeoff.
--prefix=
is merely where I'd like python3 to install, if you didn't know.
sudo make distclean
Edit your python setup file
vim /{yourpythonsource}/Modules/Setup
Uncomment out the following lines and ensure that your SSL variable points to your openssl directory. In mine, it was looking for the directory 'ssl' instead of 'openssl.'
<pre><code># Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other </code>
<pre><code># socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable: </code>
<code>SSL=/usr/local/openssl
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto</code>
sudo ./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local --prefix=/opt/python-3.7.1
sudo make && sudo make install
Solution 3:[3]
While this might not be the best answer, I will share how I solved this problem.
First of all, in my case, OpenSSL did not build correctly, as
make test
did return errors (and consequently Python gave this error). This was solved by installing a newer version of Perl and then installing OpenSSL again (configure, make, etc).Use this command before using ./configure
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/openssl/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
At the configure command, include the library:
LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/openssl/lib" ./configure (all your preferred options) --with-openssl=/path/to/openssl
as apparently the option for configure does not convey the message to the C compiler which needs it.
Am not sure whether option 2 and 3 are needed simultaneously, but I did so and it worked.
Solution 4:[4]
Edit setup.py
Find the following lines:
system_lib_dirs = ['/lib64', '/usr/lib64', '/lib', '/usr/lib']
system_include_dirs = ['/usr/include']
...and place each folder at the beginning of its respective list.
In my case I had to add: /usr/local/lib
and /usr/local/include
:
system_lib_dirs = ['/usr/local/lib', '/lib64', '/usr/lib64', '/lib', '/usr/lib']
system_include_dirs = ['/usr/local/include', '/usr/include']
Finally: make distclean && ./configure
You may want to ensure that export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(or what have you) is added to the very end of /etc/profile
and reboot, as well.
Solution 5:[5]
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
Solution 6:[6]
I ran into this problem with LMDE 5 (running Debian Bullseye) compiling Python 3.10.4. It was fixed by doing:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
Solution 7:[7]
Met same issue, looks configure of Python3 can't work well.
If you have installed the latest openssl, make sure the path of OPENSSL_LDFLAGS is correct in Makefile, below is my env case
OPENSSL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib64
Solution 8:[8]
Execute till download python (3.10.4 is what i tried) from the link below https://computingforgeeks.com/install-latest-python-on-centos-linux/
Upgrade openssl as documented in https://cloudwafer.com/blog/installing-openssl-on-centos-7/
modify $python_home/Modules/Setup
Update the OPENSSL location and uncomment the below lines
--------------------------------------------
OPENSSL=/usr/local/ssl
_ssl _ssl.c \
-I$(OPENSSL)/include -L$(OPENSSL)/lib \
-lssl -lcrypto
--------------------------------------------
Continue the installation steps from https://computingforgeeks.com/install-latest-python-on-centos-linux/
Hope it helps somebody.. fyi: I was installing this on a centos7 ec2 instance as a part of installing ansible.
Solution 9:[9]
Here is a solution on Mac OS X / Homebrew:
brew reinstall openssl
brew unlink openssl && brew link openssl --force # careful!
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Then download your python tarball and do this:
tar xvf Python-3.7.2.tar
cd Python-3.7.2
./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" --prefix=$PWD/Python-3.7.2/mybuild --enable-optimizations
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Solution 6 | DanDevost |
Solution 7 | Yu Hao |
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