Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 12:47:01PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> cat /etc/debian_version >> 9.4 > >> I do have openssl and libssl-dev installed; > > In stretch, libssl-dev is the development package for OpenSSL version 1.1. > This is a relatively new version of OpenSSL, and it is not compatible with > version 1.0. > > Most programs that use OpenSSL will be expecting to use the version 1.0 API. > I don't know your particular program, but it's a reasonable guess that > it wants the older version. > > Try installing libssl1.0-dev (which will remove libssl-dev) and see if that > works. You can switch back and forth as needed when compiling various > programs, but you can't have both installed at the same time.
Thanks for the helpful and precise input. So far haven't managed to make it work Something else must be a problem. After some more testingh/tinkering I may have a new query. Your response was helpful information anyway.