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Node.js installation: openssl not installed

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I have installed libssl-dev and openssl but I get this when I install node.js:

> ./configure && make && make install                                                                                          

Checking for program g++ or c++          : /usr/bin/g++                                                                                                               

Checking for program cpp                 : /usr/bin/cpp                                                                                                               

Checking for program ar                  : /usr/bin/ar                                                                                                                

Checking for program ranlib              : /usr/bin/ranlib                                                                                                            

Checking for g++                         : ok                                                                                                                         

Checking for program gcc or cc           : /usr/bin/gcc                                                                                                               

Checking for gcc                         : ok                                                                                                                         

Checking for library dl                  : yes                                                                                                                        

Checking for openssl                     : not found                                                                                                                  

Checking for function SSL_library_init   : yes                                                                                                                        

Checking for header openssl/crypto.h     : yes                                                                                                                        

Checking for library rt                  : yes                                                                                                                        

Checking for fdatasync(2) with c++       : yes

Openssl is not found. But node was installed successfully.

Why isn't openssl found? Anyone has the same problem?

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answered 14 Years ago miles · Accepted Answer

This isn't exactly a programming question. Still...

Quick answer

The installer checks for OpenSSL support in two ways. The first check failed for you, the second succeeded. For me, the first check succeeded (see below). Either way works.

Longer answer

Here's what I got when I built it:

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

$ ./configure

Checking for program g++ or c++          : /usr/bin/g++ 

Checking for program cpp                 : /usr/bin/cpp 

Checking for program ar                  : /usr/bin/ar 

Checking for program ranlib              : /usr/bin/ranlib 

Checking for g++                         : ok  

Checking for program gcc or cc           : /usr/bin/gcc 

Checking for gcc                         : ok  

Checking for library dl                  : yes 

Checking for openssl                     : yes 

Checking for library rt                  : yes 

<---snip--->

Presuming you downloaded node.js v0.2.3 from http://nodejs.org/, the configuration is mostly done by waf in the file wscript.

The relevant lines are:

  if not Options.options.without_ssl:

    if conf.check_cfg(package='openssl',

                      args='--cflags --libs',

                      uselib_store='OPENSSL'):

      Options.options.use_openssl = conf.env[USE_OPENSSL] = True

      conf.env.append_value(CPPFLAGS, -DHAVE_OPENSSL=1)

    else:

      libssl = conf.check_cc(lib='ssl',

                             header_name='openssl/ssl.h',

                             function_name='SSL_library_init',

                             libpath=['/usr/lib', '/usr/local/lib', '/opt/local/lib', '/usr/sfw/lib'],

                             uselib_store='OPENSSL')

      libcrypto = conf.check_cc(lib='crypto',

                                header_name='openssl/crypto.h',

                                uselib_store='OPENSSL')

The first part is simple enough. It runs pkgconfig. Here is what happens when I do the equivalent by hand:

 $ pkg-config openssl --cflags --libs

 -lssl -lcrypto

The second set of checks is run if pkg-config fails to confirm the package is installed. In that case, it tries to compile a trivial gcc program which checks for the existence of functions in libcrypt and libssl. If those both succeed, installation continues. If one of them fails, there's a fatal error, and the script bombs out.