Making library available in NixOS to build makefile projects

I want to install the python package wolfcrypt under a python virtual environment (venv) as a one-off test to build a bootloader using wolfBoot As many other python packages, it requires the python header files to bind and link properly. This is usually find as the package python-dev in debian or python-devel on red hat distros. Do I have to write a .nix file to do this one-off test? I know I am [supposed to use nix-shell](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/explain-how-do-system-c-libraries-and-headers-are-located/53669/2) in some capacity, but I simply don't understand where to get the libraries from and how to have them available when building the project. I use nix-shell -p to solve these kind of troubles usually, but I cannot find the package for the python library or the other libraries I need. What is the simplest way to get references to those libs and perform a build with make, or in my case a pip install wolfcrypt ? Thank you for your time