Dan,

Thanks again. I edited the lib/Makefile and modified "LIBCURL_LIBS =-lssl
-lcrypto " to "LIBCURL_LIBS = /path/libssl.a -lcrypto". This builds libcurl
with static linking of openssl.

~G
On Nov 29, 2007 3:51 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:30:55PM -0800, Ganesh Ragavan wrote:
> > Thanks Dan. Could you please explain in bit detail about "Or, maybe
> just
> > temporarily move the dynamic libssl.so out of the way during
> > the build."?
> >
> > If I point to libssl.a somewhere in the build, would it build ssl
> statically
> > with libcurl. Could you pls explain where exactly I could specify this?
> >
> > Because when I included -static option in LDFLAGS, it built everything
> > statically including libc.
>
> Right, that's what -static does. If you remove libssl.so
> (e.g. 'rm /usr/lib/libssh.so' or just temporarily 'mv' it) then the linker
> will look for libssh.a and try to link against that. You could try
> setting
> LDFLAGS=-l/usr/lib/libssh.a during the configure stage, but I don't think
> that is going to be enough to fool the linker.
>
> >>> Dan
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Received on 2007-12-02