Bug report

Bug description:

Compilation on Ubuntu 24.04.2 with ./configure --with-pydebug without libffi-dev package installed cause the following unexpected warning while loading the resulting executable as ./python:

warning: can't use pyrepl: No module named 'msvcrt'

After installation of libffi-dev and recompilation the warning was resolved.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-131189: Fix "msvcrt" import warning on Linux when "_ctypes" is not available. #131201
• [3.14] gh-131189: Fix "msvcrt" import warning on Linux when "_ctypes" is not available. (GH-131201) #136668

Related

• pyrepl: restructure imports to give a meaningful error when curses is missing on POSIX #130046