Re: [Chicken-users] Compiling the openssl egg on OS X

[Blake Sweeney]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:07:30PM +0100, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> * Blake Sweeney <address@hidden> [160316 16:57]:
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 02:24:23PM +0000, Norman Gray wrote:
> > > I'm having difficulty installing the openssl egg on OS X 10.10.  I'd be
> > > surprised if I'm the first person to encounter this problem, but I can't
> > > find anything about it in the mail archive.
> > >
> > > When I attempt to install the egg with 'chicken-install openssl' it fails 
> > > as
> > > shown below.  This will ultimately be because, if I recall correctly, 
> > > Apple
> > > have deprecated OpenSSL in favour of their own crypto framework (I believe
> > > there was a long argument about API changes between releases, or something
> > > like that).
> > >
> > > I can of course install openssl elsewhere, and have done so, but looking 
> > > at
> > > the chicken-install --help text, I can't see any way of directing
> > > chicken-install to this alternate location (I tried -I /path/to/install,
> > > just on the off-chance, but...).  Is there any way of adjusting the paths
> > > for the compilation step in chicken-install?
> > >
> > > I discovered this problem because I managed yesterday to get my 
> > > application
> > > building with modules (thanks to the list!), and the dependency 
> > > information
> > > in that seems to require the openssl egg be present.  Building the same
> > > application with only compilation units appears to work fine without 
> > > openssl
> > > installed (it doesn't actually use openssl functionality).
> > >
> > > Thanks for any pointers or workarounds.
> >
> > I just ran into this a few weeks ago. I ended up downloading the openssl
> > egg and modifying openssl.setup to look like:
> >
> > (begin
> >   (compile
> >     -I/Users/bsweene/.local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/include 
> > -L/Users/bsweene/.local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/lib
> >    -O2 -d0 -s -j openssl "openssl.scm" -lssl -lcrypto)
> >   (compile -O2 -d0 -s openssl.import.scm)
> >   (compile
> >     -I/Users/bsweene/.local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/include 
> > -L/Users/bsweene/.local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/lib
> >    -O2 -d0 -c "openssl.scm" -lssl -lcrypto
> >    -o openssl-static.o -unit openssl -D static)))
> >
> > I added the -I/path/to/openssl/include and -L/path/to/openssl/lib to get
> > it to install. I install openssl with homebrew if that matters. Seems to
> > work for me now.
> 
> This can also be accomplished by setting the CSC_OPTIONS variable properly 
> for chicken-install:
> 
> CSC_OPTIONS="-I/Users/bsweene/.local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/include 
> -L/Users/bsweene/.lo\
> cal/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/lib" chicken-install openssl
> 
> without any modifications.
> 
> Does that work?

Thanks! I'll keep this in mind if I run into this issue again!