Cannot find libcrypto library error
c, gcc, linux, openssl, shared-libraries
Solution
Add `-L /usr/local/ssl/lib/` into the GCC command line, before the `-lcrypto`. Since you are building against the OpenSSL headers under `/usr/local/ssl`, you also need to link against the actual library under the same prefix (even though you only appear to have a static one installed there, that may or may not be your intention; you may need to properly reinstall your OpenSSL built from source).
(edit) To fix the `dlopen()` and friends not being found by the linker, add `-ldl` into the GCC command line. `-ldl` tells the linker to also link against libdl.so, which is the shared library containing `dlopen()`, `dlsym()`, `dlclose()` etc.; these functions are used by OpenSSL internally and thus, `-ldl` is an indirect dependency when using `-lcrypto` (on Linux). Because you are linking to a static version of libcrypto, you need to explicitly link against all indirect dependencies.
If you are not familiar with linking to the proper libraries, I'd suggest you use OpenSSL as installed from your Operating System package manager; it might save you some trouble.
Problem
When i am trying to compile a `C` code which uses openssl 'crypto' library functions with comand line `-lcrypto` with `gcc 4.4.3` it gives an error ``` `@ubu:$ gcc -ggdb aes_m.c -Werror -Wall -I /usr/local/ssl/include/ -lcrypto -o aes /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto collect2: ld returned 1 exit status` ``` what can be the reason for this?? I have already gone through this discussion ld cannot find an existing library but that does not help. locate command results in ``` $ locate libcrypto /home/abhi/Downloads/openssl-1.0.1b/libcrypto.a /home/abhi/Downloads/openssl-1.0.1b/libcrypto.pc /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /lib/i486/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /lib/i586/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libcrypto.so.0.9.8/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a /usr/local/ssl/lib/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc ``` Can someone please help on this or point out any mistake i am doing @ Daniel Roethlisberger tried using the -L flag but that resulted in these errors ``` gcc -ggdb aes_m.c -Werror -Wall -I /usr/local/ssl/include/ -L /usr/local/ssl/lib -lcrypto -o aes /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_globallookup': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x2d): undefined reference to `dlopen' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x43): undefined reference to `dlsym' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x4d): undefined reference to `dlclose' /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_pathbyaddr': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x8f): undefined reference to `dladdr' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0xe9): undefined reference to `dlerror' /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_bind_func': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x4b1): undefined reference to `dlsym' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x590): undefined reference to `dlerror' /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_bind_var': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x611): undefined reference to `dlsym' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x6f0): undefined reference to `dlerror' /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_unload': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x755): undefined reference to `dlclose' /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_load': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x837): undefined reference to `dlopen' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x8ae): undefined reference to `dlclose' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x8f5): undefined reference to `dlerror' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ``` Many thanks