From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T07:55:46+09:00
Subject: [Ruby Forum] Problems building OpenSSL for Ruby on a Win32 platform

Unanswered question from http://ruby-forum.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=340

QTE
Here's something along these lines I was wondering about. I was looking 
to implement Net::SSH to create some GUI admin utilities. My admin 
workstation is a Win32 box. I tried installing Net::SSH, the 
OpenSSL-snapshot, as well as the Needle package.

Checking the RAA I saw another OpenSSL project called RubyPKI 
(http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/openssl). But the download directory 
is empty and the project maintainer has an invalid e-mail address. I am 
assuming that this is a dead duck? In any event, on to Net::SSH and its 
dependencies.

I was able to install both Needle and Net::SSH on my Win32 box, but when 
I tried to run the extconf.rb script against the OpenSSL-snapshot I 
received an error message stating that the openssl/ssl.h file couldn't 
be located. I have copied the OpenSSL C headers into various places 
along the search path (e.g. - the root directory of the 
OpenSSL-snapshot, the local ruby/include directory, etc.), as well as 
appended the PATH to include the OpenSSL C header files. Still no luck. 
I also tried running the extconf.rb script using both the --with-debug 
and the --with-openssldir=/my/path options. Still no luck.

Here's an excerpt from the mkmf.log file:

--------------------

have_header: checking for openssl/ssl.h... -------------------- no

"cl -IC:/ruby/openssl-snapshot-20040726 
-Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi 
-O2b2xg- -G6 conftest.c -P"
checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <openssl/ssl.h>
/* end */

UNQTE

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Best regards,

Alexey Verkhovsky

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