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Re: Static linking of libcurl to openssl

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:01:55 -0700

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:49:23PM -0400, Glenn MacGregor wrote:
> I am trying to debug and test some threaded ssl curl applications, but I need
> to link to a different version of openssl than the installed version. I figure
> the easiest way is to link libcurl statically with the openssl libs (libssl and
> libcrypto). I have found no easy way to do this since the installed openssl
> resides in /lib it always seem to link that .so.

This question has come up a couple of times here in the last couple of months.
The short answer: you can easily link against another OpenSSL dynamic lib,
but linking against OpenSSL statically isn't as easy. Search the archives
and read the INSTALL file for the long answer.

>>> Dan

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