[issue35170] 3.7.1 compile failure on CentOS 6.10; _ctypes did not build

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[issue35170] 3.7.1 compile failure on CentOS 6.10; _ctypes did not build

lana.deere added the comment: I did 'yum install libffi-devel' on my machine as suggested and that cured the ctypes issue. This issue can be closed; if I run into any other problems I can open other issues for them. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue35170] 3.7.1 compile failure on CentOS 6.10; _ctypes did not build

Alexey Izbyshev added the comment: The in-tree copy of libffi was removed in #27979 (between 3.6 and 3.7) for all platforms except Windows and macOS. Therefore, you need libffi development package installed in your system to build CPython 3.7. As for PIP, personally, I think that's an

[issue35170] 3.7.1 compile failure on CentOS 6.10; _ctypes did not build

New submission from lana.deere : When I try to compile 3.7.1 on CentOS6.10 it fails to build _ctypes, but I can't find any indication of why. There are several mentions of _ctypes during compiles, building '_ctypes_test' extension creating