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Python build from source have error "no module named math", "no module named setuptools" etc

i just build python 3.11 (its no matter which version because i have the same problem with other versions) on cygwin and catch this erorr. dyn-load are in PATH - thats ok. may be i need some env to setting up?
I configure it by
./configure --prefix="/usr" --enable-optimizations

You are probably lacking system libraries needed to build Python from source
Necessary packages
sudo apt-cyg install python-dev # for math
sudo apt-cyg install python3-setuptools # for setup tools
sudo apt-cyg install build-essential # you probably need this too

How to compile and install python3.9.6 on unbuntu

I'm trying to install python3.9.6 on ubuntu
apt only had python3.8
so I tried this https://tecadmin.net/how-to-install-python-3-9-on-ubuntu-18-04/
but it installed python3.9.5,
next, I tried to compile and build python but it didn't install pip so I had to install zlib and spend like 5 days trying to make it work, and it did work and I was able to install both python2.7.18 and 3.9.6 with pip but it didn't install the SSL module so I had to install that and bla bla...
it worked fine after installing openssl but when I tried to install scapy it showed an error message, after some research I found out that the error was caused by outdated SSL module
I figured that compiling and building python had too many problems it didn't installed all the packages for tools like pip.
if I spend some more time I think could fix this but I'm worried that this kind of problem
could happen again in the future,
I'm really desperate, so if you got any ideas please let me know.

1. Update your local repositories
sudo apt update
2. Install supporting software (installing from source requires additional tools)
sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev \
libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev wget
3. Download the latest version of Python Source Code
You might want to do this in a separate directory (like /tmp)
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.6/Python-3.9.6.tgz
4. Extract downloaded files
tar -xf Python-3.9.6.tgz
5. Test system and optimize python
cd Python-3.9.6
./configure --enable-optimizations
This might take a bit of time to complete
6a. Install a second instance of Python (highly recommended)
sudo make altinstall
It is recommended that you use the altinstall method. Your Ubuntu system may have software packages dependent on Python2.x/3.x.
6b. Overwrite default python installation (not recommended!!!)
sudo make install
7. Verify Python installation
python3 --version
# or
python3.6 --version

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?

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!

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:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
:wq
Compiling Python3
The key here is understanding that the path you define with --with-openssl= is where Python looks for /openssl/lib. You need to give Python the parent directory of the openssl directory.
That means that if you set --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl your make install will fail even though the make logs show that openssl is fine!
--enable-optimizations is irrelevant but recommended - longer make for 10% faster Python code is a good tradeoff.
--prefix= is merely where I'd like python3 to install, if you didn't know.
sudo make distclean
Edit your python setup file
vim /{yourpythonsource}/Modules/Setup
Uncomment out the following lines and ensure that your SSL variable points to your openssl directory. In mine, it was looking for the directory 'ssl' instead of 'openssl.'
<pre><code># Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other </code>
<pre><code># socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable: </code>
<code>SSL=/usr/local/openssl
_ssl _ssl.c \
-DUSE_SSL -I$(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

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.

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.

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

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

There was NO need to edit Modules/Setup file built python with customed openssl.
I have built python 3.11.0-rc2 under Debian 9 stretch follow the official document:
https://docs.python.org/3/using/unix.html?highlight=openssl#custom-openssl
To use your vendor’s OpenSSL configuration and system trust store, locate the directory with openssl.cnf file or symlink in /etc. On most distribution the file is either in /etc/ssl or /etc/pki/tls. The directory should also contain a cert.pem file and/or a certs directory.
$ find /etc/ -name openssl.cnf -printf "%h\n"
/etc/ssl
Download, build, and install OpenSSL. Make sure you use install_sw and NOT install. The install_sw target does NOT override openssl.cnf.
$ curl -O https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-VERSION.tar.gz
$ tar xzf openssl-VERSION
$ pushd openssl-VERSION
$ ./config \
--prefix=/usr/local/custom-openssl \
--libdir=lib \
--openssldir=/etc/ssl
$ make -j1 depend
$ make -j8
$ make install_sw
$ popd
Build Python with custom OpenSSL (see the configure --with-openssl and --with-openssl-rpath options)
$ pushd python-3.x.x
$ ./configure -C \
--with-openssl=/usr/local/custom-openssl \
--with-openssl-rpath=auto \
--prefix=/usr/local/python-3.x.x
$ make -j8
$ make altinstall
ssl module check after installed :
# /usr/local/python-3.11.0-rc2/bin/python3.11 -c 'import ssl; print(ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION)'
OpenSSL 1.1.1q 5 Jul 2022

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

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.

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
More detai:
https://devguide.python.org/setup/#macos-and-os-x

Python 3 No module named '_ssl'

The Problem
While I run you python3 application, it shows
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 101, in <module>
import _ssl # if we can't import it, let the error propagate
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ssl'
What I've tried
install the dependencies
yum install openssl-devel
I also edited the setup.py file and recomplie python3
# Detect SSL support for the socket module (via _ssl)
search_for_ssl_incs_in = [
'/usr/local/ssl/include',
'/usr/local/include/openssl', #I've added this line
'/usr/contrib/ssl/include/'
]
I've complied the openssl with the path configuration
#tar -xzvf openssl-***.tar.gz
#./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
#make & make install
CentOS 7
Python 3.6

I found some solution:
if you use centos,try:
s1
yum install openssl-devel -y
then when you compile, append --with-ssl,just like this
./configure prefix=/usr/local/share/python3 --with-ssl
s2
-- install depend library, make share compile is fluent
yum install -y zlib zlib-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel libffi libffi-devel gcc gcc-c++
(ubuntu)sudo apt-get install libz-dev
wget --no-check-certificate http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf openssl-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.1.1
./config --prefix=$HOME/openssl shared zlib
make && make install
-- configure shared ld library path so that compile can find it
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/openssl/lib" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
(zsh user has some different with .zsh_profile)
-- compile with openssl path
./configure prefix=/usr/local/share/python3 --with-openssl=$HOME/openssl

I faced the same issue, I installed python from source and didn't enabled ssl option while compiling. So I find the solution in the following article. You need to find ssl section Modules/Setup.dist and uncomment that section. Hope this will help someone.

Installing distribute in Python 3.3 Ubuntu

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a distribution of Python 3.3.1 installed. I want to install some packages, so I first sought to install distribute-0.6.38. During the "install" phase, I am encountering the following runtime error ($HOME is the location of my Python3.3 installation):
File "$HOME/Python-3.3.1/Lib/zipfile.py", line 583, in _check_compression
"Compression requires the (missing) zlib module"
RuntimeError: Compression requires the (missing) zlib module
I tracked back through the files and function calls, but cannot tell why the creation of the zipfile (I assume this is the root of the error) failed.
Is there something missing from the package? Or is there an issue with the fact that this is a secondary installation of Python?

It is an issue with the fact you installed Python from source.
You need to install the zlib1g-dev package to provide the headers to Python to be able to compile in zlib support:
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
You may be missing other dependencies; here is a list of packages I'd install if I were to compile Python on an Ubuntu machine:
build-essential
libbz2-dev
libncursesw5-dev
libreadline5-dev
libssl-dev
libgdbm-dev
libc6-dev
libsqlite3-dev
tk-dev

You need to have the zlib1g-dev library installed.
Try
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
and reinstall.
If that doesn't work you may need to specify where zlib installs like so;
python setup.py install