Unable to compile python3.7 on centos 5 with sqlite3

Question

When am trying to compile python3.7.1 on centos 5 got the error,

Failed to build these modules:
_sqlite3

On further checking on the compile log and found the below lines,

building '_sqlite3' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Modules/_sqlite
/usr/bin/gcc44 -pthread -fPIC -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -DMODULE_NAME="sqlite3" -IModules/_sqlite -I/usr/include -I./Include -I. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Include -I/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1 -c /usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Modules/_sqlite/cache.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Modules/_sqlite/cache.o
/usr/bin/gcc44 -pthread -fPIC -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -std=c99 -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -DMODULE_NAME="sqlite3" -IModules/_sqlite -I/usr/include -I./Include -I. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Include -I/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1 -c /usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Modules/_sqlite/connection.o
/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c: In function ‘_pysqlite_connection_begin’:
/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.1/Modules/_sqlite/connection.c:387: error: implicit declaration of function ‘sqlite3_prepare_v2’

Am using /usr/bin/gcc44 along with sqlite-devel package is installed. I would like to know if any other faced such issue while compiling python from source and if any solution available for this compile issue.

Answer 1

The issue was sqlite version was very old. I had to compile the latest sqlite3 and then compile the python3.7 which went fine.