dependency on pyopenssl and "gcc failed with exit status 1" issue

I have a script that listens to APNS feedback service to get invalid tokens (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/ApplePushService.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008194-CH100-SW9)


when i ran into a ubuntu box (spun by vagrant ) i ran into this issue:-


  

 raise DistutilsError("Setup script exited with %s" % (v.args[0],))

distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

So I read online that probably i need to fix pyopenssl   hence i tried 
Pip install pyopenssl 

 raise DistutilsError("Setup script exited with %s" % (v.args[0],))

distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

After that i tried easyinstall to understand more on whats going on and i got 

    No package 'libffi' found c/_cffi_backend.c:13:17: fatal error: ffi.h: No such file or directory #include "

You'll need to install the libffi-devel package  

                   "sudo apt-get install libffi-dev"