Re: lynx-dev Lynx does not compile! SSL

[Doug Kaufman]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Subramanya wrote:

> I work for Sun Microsystems . I am 'make' failure program failure to
> build lynx supporting SSL. The following error I get:-
> 
> ld: fatal: library -llibssl: not found
> ld: fatal: library -llibcrypto: not found

That should be -lssl -lcrypto.

Since you appearr to be in the US, you can't use the RSA code in
openssl. I presume Sun has licensed code from RSA that you can use.
You probably need something like "-lssl -lcrypto -lRSAglue -lrsa",
with the last referring to your licensed RSA library.

> I duly tried to compile in the crypto and SSL libraries from the OpenSSL
> (formerly
> SSLeay) library, available at
> ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/OpenSSL/.   But for this also I got
> source error. That is:-

You have to get a working SSL before you attempt the lynx compilation.

 
> cc -I.. -I../../include -O -DNOPROTO  -c  bn_mul.c

NOPROTO is for lynx. I don't think it means anything for openssl.

> "bn_mul.c", line 98: syntax error before or at: /
> ...
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `bn_mul.o'
> Current working directory /home/subbu/Lynx/openssl-0.9.1c/crypto/bn

Why are you using an old version of openssl? Current version is  0.9.4.
I recall a problem in this section of the code that was subsequently
fixed.

> Can you please to resolve the above problem?

There have been lots of fixes since 0.9.1c. Start with the latest
release of openssl. For help compiling openssl, see their mailing
list. We can probably only help with the lynx part here, after you
have openssl compiled.

See "http://www.openssl.org/";
                             Doug
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