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ajsie
ajsie

Reputation: 79686

Node.js installation: openssl not installed

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?

Upvotes: 43

Views: 33243

Answers (10)

mikermcneil
mikermcneil

Reputation: 11271

Seems like I can do:

apt-get install lib32z1-dev
apt-get install pkg-config

to consistently remove all errors and warnings about openssl when I'm doing a fresh Rackspace deployment with Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10, in case that helps anyone else out.

Here's a gist with a rundown of the script I finally settled on for spinning up these types of instances with node.js:

https://gist.github.com/1606102

Edit: Updated the gist to reflect the updates made to Node, etc.

Upvotes: 3

bithavoc
bithavoc

Reputation: 1539

To solve this issue in Ubuntu 12.04:

apt-get install pkg-config -y

Upvotes: 2

Bouncner
Bouncner

Reputation: 2359

For people with a new Debian 6.0 (to be more precise: Debian 6.0.2.1 i386) set up, the following packages need to be installed to run node.js v.0.6.15 (latest stable at the moment): - build-essentials - pkg-config - libssl-dev

Just use aptitude -y install "package" ... hope that helps for all you Debian guys. :)

Upvotes: 1

chatfeed
chatfeed

Reputation: 111

I had the same problem.

I tried

./configure --prefix=/opt/node --openssl-libpath=/usr/local/lib/

which solved it even though I think --openssl-libpath=/usr/local/lib/ isn`t necessary

Upvotes: 3

mindon
mindon

Reputation: 473

  1. confirm your openssl installed.
  2. if installed, confirm its path in ['/usr/lib', '/usr/local/lib', '/opt/local/lib', '/usr/sfw/lib'];
  3. if not in those paths, try following options with your correct openssl path ./configure --openssl-libpath=/usr/local/ssl/lib --openssl-includes=/usr/local/ssl/include

Upvotes: 3

j03m
j03m

Reputation: 5303

sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils

Upvotes: 1

joshbennett
joshbennett

Reputation: 512

I Had the same problem using Debian 6. I had to install libcurl4-openssl-dev.

Switch to root user, or use sudo, then run:

apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

This fixed the problem for me.

Upvotes: 26

Hal
Hal

Reputation: 1293

If using Centos 5.x, make sure that you install openssl-devel prior to ./configure.

yum install openssl-devel

This solved the same issue for me in centos.

Upvotes: 10

Ashwin Bharambe
Ashwin Bharambe

Reputation: 499

@weng: I had the same problem. The solution was easy: sudo apt-get install pkg-config :)

Upvotes: 49

Conspicuous Compiler
Conspicuous Compiler

Reputation: 6469

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.

Upvotes: 33

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