Re: [mxe-octave] openssl is depndency of qt (both cross and native) (was Re: [mxe-octave] openssl for linux native build )

[John W. Eaton]

On 09/06/2016 02:25 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> Qt is a huge framework; my guess is that OpenSSL is used to build Qt,
> possibly to enable some options, but that Octave is not linked with
> OpenSSL.
>
> For example, the Debian Qt 5 packages are built with libssl-dev, but the
> resulting Qt shared libraries do not link with libssl at all.
>
> However, to be safe, Qt can be built with a -no-openssl option, someone
> could test this in mxe-octave and ensure that everything still works.

I tried it and it seems to work.  I also disabled openssl in a few other 
places.  I'll commit a patch after I've had a chance to run the Octave 
test suite.

jwe