Configure Thrift libcrypto required

Question

I installed Openssl, Openssl-dev on Linux. When I configure Thrift, I get this error:

checking for BN_init in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: "Error: libcrypto required."

Please advise!

I got this problem with latest thrift version so far (0.8.0). I installed Thrift0.7.0 successfully. Thanks for your answers! — Aloha, Feb 08 '12 at 06:40

Wildfire · Answer 1 · 2015-05-30T20:54:23.057

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On Ubuntu installing libssl-dev package should fix it. If you use another distro, package name should be similar.

edited May 30 '15 at 20:54

answered Feb 03 '12 at 20:19

Wildfire

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Yeah, this did not fix it for me either. – someuser Mar 20 '15 at 11:45
Worked fine for me, thanks a ton! – Ismoh Jul 26 '23 at 21:28

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 16:00

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On debian 8, sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev solves the issue.

answered Jan 06 '17 at 16:00

NekoPep

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score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 11 '12 at 14:39

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On Amazon Linux (and possibly CentOS/Fedora/RHEL), you will need to install openssl-devel

answered Apr 11 '12 at 14:39

Andrew

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Thanks! Installing openssl-devel with cygwin on Windows 8 also got rid of the error (thrift 0.9.1) – oliverdm Jun 09 '14 at 13:41

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 14 '18 at 18:04

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on Ubuntu 18.04, run this: sudo apt install libssl1.0-dev

answered Sep 14 '18 at 18:04

Joe

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Perfect, it fixed my issue – M Faisal Hameed Feb 23 '21 at 21:26

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 26 '13 at 09:33

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I meet the same condition; Then seek the detail of config.log trying to fix it

try this:

LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/ssl/lib' LIBS='-ldl' ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/thrift --with-php --with-boost=/usr/local/boost

answered Aug 26 '13 at 09:33

woso

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Oh god...after spending more than 2-3 days, your answer fixed my problem. Thank you so much!!! – vikram Jan 24 '18 at 18:50

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 07 '12 at 20:34

The following works on version 0.8.0 of Thrift.

To solve this problem on Windows 7x64, msys + mingw64, I installed the latest openssl from source code by configuring for both static and shared:

./configure mingw64 shared
make
make test
make install

Installing just the static version of the library solved libcrypto not being found. Installing the shared version as well fixed it for libssl as well.

There were errors further on when compiling openssl v1.0.1c while trying to compile the tests. About 3 of the c test files just had a file name in them which the compiler didn't know what to do with. Copying the code from the dummytest.c file from the same directory into those problematic files solved the issues.

Note that by default openssl will install into /usr/local/ssl so you will have to specify the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to point to the correct directories when configuring thrift. From a build directory, using mingw64 it was:

../thrift-0.8.0/configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib CXXFLAGS=-DMINGW

Thanks for this; it gets me past the OP problem but I do still get the "Error: libssl required" immediately following. I built openssl-1.0.1c from scratch using './Configure mingw64 shared' but that doesn't seem to fix it. I've tried lots of combinations of -I and -L etc but nothing seems to work. Are there other steps I may have missed? — Billy Charlton, Nov 13 '12 at 01:28

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 26 '12 at 10:16

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I am using opensuse the problem was resolved after I installed openssl-devel

answered Dec 26 '12 at 10:16

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 05 '14 at 13:37

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On Centos 6.x installing openssl-devel should help.

answered Mar 05 '14 at 13:37

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 17 '18 at 09:34

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On Ubuntu, thrift 0.9... libraries typically located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev

answered Oct 17 '18 at 09:34

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 03 '18 at 10:28

For debian stretch : https://packages.ubuntu.com/

You will need to download these 64bit package which are dedicated for ubuntu trusty LTS : zlib1g_1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

zlib1g-dev_1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

libssl1.0.0_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.13_amd64.deb

libssl-dev_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.13_amd64.deb

install each package with sudo dpkg -i example

sudo dpkg -i libssl-dev_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.13_amd64.deb

score -2 · Answer 11 · edited Sep 12 '14 at 09:44

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You need to install the libcrypto library. On openSUSE 13.1, the relevant package is called libopenssl-devel.

edited Sep 12 '14 at 09:44

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answered Sep 12 '14 at 09:11

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Configure Thrift libcrypto required

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