Install Software /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl ERROR

baddah · 07-04-2007, 02:07 AM

Hi,

When compiling software.Asterisk 1.2.17 in particular i get the following error on FC6.

Code:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl

I assume i'm needing some package,but some googling did not help me much.What package do I need to provide this?

Thanks

Nylex · 07-04-2007, 02:25 AM

Try installing OpenSSL.

baddah · 07-04-2007, 03:05 AM

Hi,thanks for the reply.Its not that
yum info openssl

Code:

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
Name   : openssl
Arch   : i686
Version: 0.9.8b
Release: 8.3.fc6
Size   : 3.2 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: The OpenSSL toolkit

So it is installed.Any other idea.Is this -lssl part of openssl.Would it normally be under /usr/bin/ld?

reddazz · 07-04-2007, 04:07 AM

The answer you got is correct. Install openssl (and maybe openssl-devel) and that will resolve your problem. Openssl provides ssl libraries, which according to ther error messages you posted are the ones ld cannot find.

baddah · 07-04-2007, 04:30 AM

Thanks,the openssl-devel packages installed what i needed.Thanks

mandla_nib · 05-22-2013, 02:01 AM

Thanks, similar problem to me solved, by installing openssl-devel

gitaarik · 06-26-2015, 08:22 AM

I got this error when trying to install the Python package `mysqlclient` on Ubuntu 14.04. This would normally work if you installed all required mysql packages, but I'm using the MariaDB variants now and I got this error. I couldn't find the `openssl-devel` package but did find a package `libssl-dev` (I guess they renamed it to that) and installing that resolved the error

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John VV · 06-27-2015, 01:28 AM

gitaarik
i take it you did not notice that this thread is 8 YEARS OLD
from 2007

and you are using Ubuntu ( Debian camp)
and this thread is for the very OLD and very out of date Fedora-core 6 ( from 2007 )

fedora is a RPM based operating system

a type that YOU are NOT using

for Debian based OS's the DEVELOPMENT source code headers are in "openssl-dev.deb" files
and NOT in the redhat based "openssl-devel.rpm"

see the naming difference
-dev VS. -devel

gitaarik · 06-28-2015, 06:09 AM

True. I was getting the same error message and searching for it on the net didn't gave me very much helpful results. I found this topic however, and with the help of the information here I was able to resolve my problem. So it might be an old topic, the information in it still had value for me.

And I just want to share my particular resolution for this error in case anyone else gets into a similar situation. But maybe that's not really the way you want this forum to be used?

The package naming difference in RPM/Deb makes sense though, didn't think about that.