Building on Ubuntu 16, missing SSL during ./configure

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I am trying to build bitcoind on Ubuntu 16 64-bit. I have installed the dependencies and have built it fine many times on other machines.

During ./configure, I am getting

checking whether the Boost::Unit_Test_Framework library is available... yes
checking for dynamic linked boost test... yes
checking for mismatched boost c++11 scoped enums... ok
checking for SSL... no
configure: error: openssl  not found.

I have run sudo apt-get install libssl-dev and tried it, also tried brew install openssl, still no dice.

Before, I was getting a missing pkg-config at this point, even though I had installed it. I installed pkgconf and also installed it via brew, and now it's complaining about openssl, which is definitely installed.

$ which openssl
/usr/bin/openssl

Any ideas? Frankly, I'm stumped.

UPDATE:

I built openssl from source, now I'm getting this:

checking for mismatched boost c++11 scoped enums... ok
checking for SSL... yes
checking for CRYPTO... yes
checking for EVENT... no
configure: error: libevent not found.

I'm not sure what is going on... it seems it cannot find packages installed via apt-get for some reason.

Matthew Darnell

Posted 2016-06-08T19:52:51.917

Reputation: 508

I didn't want to set this as an answer, because it's really not. I set up a new server with Ubuntu 14 and it worked the first time. Very strange. Did some directory paths change in Ubuntu 16? – Matthew Darnell – 2016-06-08T21:35:05.467

I guess you didn't follow https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md (builds fine at ubuntu 16.04), Looks like you haven't installed libevent-dev and libssl-dev.

– Jonas Schnelli – 2016-06-09T07:25:27.033

I absolutely did install both of them, multiple times I uninstalled and installed via apt-get and brew, I tried both. It only progressed past each package in the ./configure file once I built from source. – Matthew Darnell – 2016-06-09T21:00:25.050

Answers

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I fixed the issue by installing extra libraries, the whole list

sudo apt-get install -y autoconf g++ make openssl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config

sudo apt-get install -y libsasl2-dev

Source: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver/issues/138#issuecomment-184749966

David

Posted 2016-06-08T19:52:51.917

Reputation: 21

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