diff --git a/installers/macos-pkg-setup-template.sh b/installers/macos-pkg-setup-template.sh
index 5e1aa6e..c31c070 100644
--- a/installers/macos-pkg-setup-template.sh
+++ b/installers/macos-pkg-setup-template.sh
@@ -23,25 +23,46 @@ PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_VERSION_ARCH_PATH=$PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_VERSION_PATH/$ARCH
 PYTHON_FRAMEWORK_PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/${MAJOR_VERSION}.${MINOR_VERSION}"
 PYTHON_APPLICATION_PATH="/Applications/Python ${MAJOR_VERSION}.${MINOR_VERSION}"
 
-echo "Check if Python hostedtoolcache folder exist..."
+# Check if Python dependencies are installed (e.g., zlib)
+echo "Checking if zlib is installed..."
+if ! brew list zlib &>/dev/null; then
+    echo "Installing zlib via brew..."
+    brew install zlib
+else
+    echo "zlib already installed."
+fi
+
+# Only for Python 3.7.17, install additional dependencies like zlib and others
+if [ "$MAJOR_VERSION" -eq 3 ] && [ "$MINOR_VERSION" -eq 7 ] && [ "$PYTHON_FULL_VERSION" == "3.7.17" ]; then
+    echo "Installing additional dependencies for Python 3.7.17..."
+    brew install bzip2 readline ncurses sqlite3 openssl@3
+    # Ensure the environment variables for zlib are set correctly
+    ZLIB_PREFIX=$(brew --prefix zlib)
+    export LDFLAGS="-L${ZLIB_PREFIX}/lib"
+    export CFLAGS="-I${ZLIB_PREFIX}/include"
+    export CPPFLAGS="-I${ZLIB_PREFIX}/include"
+    echo "zlib linked at ${ZLIB_PREFIX}/lib"
+fi
+
+echo "Check if Python hostedtoolcache folder exists..."
 if [ ! -d $PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_PATH ]; then
     echo "Creating Python hostedtoolcache folder..."
     mkdir -p $PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_PATH
 else
-    # remove ALL other directories for same major.minor python versions
-    find $PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_PATH -name "${MAJOR_VERSION}.${MINOR_VERSION}.*"|while read python_version;do
+    # Remove ALL other directories for same major.minor python versions
+    find $PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_PATH -name "${MAJOR_VERSION}.${MINOR_VERSION}.*" | while read python_version; do
         python_version_arch="$python_version/$ARCH"
-        if [ -e "$python_version_arch" ];then
+        if [ -e "$python_version_arch" ]; then
             echo "Deleting Python $python_version_arch"
             rm -rf "$python_version_arch"
         fi
     done
 fi
 
-echo "Install Python binaries from prebuilt package"
+echo "Installing Python binaries from prebuilt package"
 sudo installer -pkg $PYTHON_PKG_NAME -target /
 
-echo "Create hostedtoolcach symlinks (Required for the backward compatibility)"
+echo "Creating hostedtoolcache symlinks (Required for the backward compatibility)"
 echo "Create Python $PYTHON_FULL_VERSION folder"
 mkdir -p $PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_VERSION_ARCH_PATH
 cd $PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_VERSION_ARCH_PATH
@@ -51,7 +72,7 @@ ln -s "${PYTHON_FRAMEWORK_PATH}/include" include
 ln -s "${PYTHON_FRAMEWORK_PATH}/share" share
 ln -s "${PYTHON_FRAMEWORK_PATH}/lib" lib
 
-echo "Create additional symlinks (Required for the UsePythonVersion Azure Pipelines task and the setup-python GitHub Action)"
+echo "Creating additional symlinks (Required for the UsePythonVersion Azure Pipelines task and the setup-python GitHub Action)"
 ln -s ./bin/$PYTHON_MAJOR_DOT_MINOR python
 
 cd bin/
@@ -73,8 +94,8 @@ export PIP_ROOT_USER_ACTION=ignore
 ./python -m ensurepip
 ./python -m pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pip --disable-pip-version-check --no-warn-script-location
 
-echo "Install OpenSSL certificates"
+echo "Installing OpenSSL certificates"
 sh -e "${PYTHON_APPLICATION_PATH}/Install Certificates.command"
 
-echo "Create complete file"
+echo "Creating complete file"
 touch $PYTHON_TOOLCACHE_VERSION_PATH/${ARCH}.complete