# Compile ruby 1.9.1 with openssl **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 17, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-ruby-1-9-1-with-openssl/185294 "2010-03-17T16:41:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-ruby-1-9-1-with-openssl/185294/1 "2010-03-17T16:41:43Z")
Hi I want to istall ruby 1.9.1-p378 with openssl support. Here is the command I used ./configure --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl But it returns something like “unrecognized --with-openssl-dir” How to make it work? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-ruby-1-9-1-with-openssl/185294/2 "2010-03-17T17:25:56Z")
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:41 PM, John Wu [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > How to make it work? > > ## Thanks! > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). One way is to build manually: $ cd ext/openssl $ ruby extconf.rb $ make $ make install hth, ammar ---
**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-ruby-1-9-1-with-openssl/185294/3 "2010-03-17T17:32:48Z")
I got === OpenSSL for Ruby configurator === === Checking for system dependent stuff… === checking for t\_open() in -lnsl… no checking for socket() in -lsocket… no checking for assert.h… yes === Checking for required stuff… === checking for openssl/ssl.h… yes checking for OpenSSL\_add\_all\_digests() in -lcrypto… no checking for OpenSSL\_add\_all\_digests() in -llibeay32… no === Checking for required stuff failed. === Makefile wasn’t created. Fix the errors above. what am I missing here? Ammar A. wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:41 PM, John Wu [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > How to make it work? > > > > ## Thanks! > > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > One way is to build manually: > > $ cd ext/openssl > $ ruby extconf.rb > $ make > $ make install > > hth, > ammar ---
**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-ruby-1-9-1-with-openssl/185294/4 "2010-03-17T20:22:20Z")
John Wu wrote: > I got > > === OpenSSL for Ruby configurator === > === Checking for system dependent stuff… === > checking for t\_open() in -lnsl… no > checking for socket() in -lsocket… no > checking for assert.h… yes > === Checking for required stuff… === > checking for openssl/ssl.h… yes > checking for OpenSSL\_add\_all\_digests() in -lcrypto… no > checking for OpenSSL\_add\_all\_digests() in -llibeay32… no > === Checking for required stuff failed. === > Makefile wasn’t created. Fix the errors above. > > what am I missing here? I believe you have to install openssl on your box first. As a matter of fact, I had the same problem. I installed openssl. I then went back to following ammar’s instructions above, but when I ‘make’ it barfs. ruby extconf.rb looks like it produces good results. but make results in: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86\_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86\_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libssl.a(s2\_meth.o): relocation R\_X86\_64\_32 against `a local symbol’ can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/lib/libssl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: \*\*\* [openssl.so] Error 1 I suspected this meant I needed to rebuild my openssl with -fPIC, which I did, but when I came back to do the make again, it only slightly changed the error: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86\_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86\_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(x86\_64cpuid.o): relocation R\_X86\_64\_PC32 against symbol `OPENSSL\_cpuid\_setup’ can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib64/gcc/x86\_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86\_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: \*\*\* [openssl.so] Error 1 Has anyone else seen this problem? Any suggestion as to how to proceed? Thanks, Dave ---
**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-ruby-1-9-1-with-openssl/185294/5 "2010-03-17T21:27:10Z")
I wrote: > /usr/lib64/gcc/x86\_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86\_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: > /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(x86\_64cpuid.o): relocation R\_X86\_64\_PC32 > against symbol `OPENSSL\_cpuid\_setup’ can not be used when making a > shared object; recompile with -fPIC > /usr/lib64/gcc/x86\_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86\_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: > final link failed: Bad value > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: \*\*\* [openssl.so] Error 1 > > Has anyone else seen this problem? Any suggestion as to how to proceed? > > Thanks, > > Dave I rebuilt openssl with the following configure, and it fixed my problem: ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl shared Dave ---
**Author:** ![princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@princenamor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/princenamor)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-ruby-1-9-1-with-openssl/185294/6 "2012-08-30T22:50:17Z")
I came across this same issue. Just to add. If you’re running Ubuntu, the standard openssl package won’t contain what you need, you will want to: $ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev