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How to install Python ssl module on Windows?

Asked 2010-02-14T16:48:50.587
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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 cannot be verified, and connections may NOT be secure. To fix this, please install the ssl module from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl .

I downloaded the package and it contained a setup.py file. I ran:

python setup.py install

and then:

Python was built with Visual Studio 2003; blablabla use MinGW32

Then I installed MinGW32 and now the compilation doesn't work. The end of the compilation errors contains:

ssl/_ssl2.c:1561: error: `CRYPTO_LOCK' undeclared (first use in this function)

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

What should I do?

python google-app-engine ssl installation python-2.5
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Since TDM-GCC 4.6.1 was released in September 2011. TDM-GCC installer will download the lastest GCC version (4.6.1) even though the tdm-gcc-4.5.2.exe is used. GCC 4.6.1 will cause GCC build error "error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin'" This is because -mno-cygwin become deprecated in GCC 4.6.1. In order to compile ssl package against python 2.5 we need to use GCC version 4.5.2.

After installing TDM-GCC you need to do extra step from the instruction by @BanditoBunny.

3.1 Download gcc-4.5.2-tdm-1-core.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/TDM-GCC%204.5%20series/4.5.2-tdm-1%20SJLJ/gcc-4.5.2-tdm-1-core.zip/download. Unzip the file into the MinGW32 folder.
3.2 Go to the SSL folder then open a command prompt there. Check GCC version (using gcc --version) to make sure it uses version 4.5.2. Then continue with step 4.

answered 2011-12-16T19:16:37.133

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