Have you tried setting CSC_OPTIONS to include the specific include and
library directories for the homebrew installed openssl, the ones under
/usr/local/Cellar/openssl*/VERSION/{include,lib}? That helped
<https://tkurtbond.github.io/posts/2021/09/13/getting-the-homebrew-chicken-scheme-sqlite3-egg-to-use-the-homebrew-installed-sqlite3-include-files-and-library-files/>
me with getting the sqlite3 egg to build using the homebrew installed
sqlite3 (because the sqlite3 Apple supplies is obsolete). It's not exactly
the same situation, but maybe it will help.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:58 PM Nicholas Van Horn <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have a project that uses the OpenSSL egg. The code base historically ran
> fine. It runs both in interpreted fashion as well as compiled. It runs on
> both linux and MacOS, and has for several years. However, after updating to
> Chicken 5+ I am no longer able to build static binaries on MacOS (which I
> use for distributing the program). On linux I have no issues. The problem
> clearly arises from Mac's abandonment of OpenSSL for its own tooling. But
> this has been the case for some time, and I've already overcome this
> before. The issue appears to be a linker problem during compile time,
> likely due to how static binaries are handled in v5+. Here's my current
> setup:
>
> MacOS 11.6 (Big Sur)
> Chicken 5.2.0
> OpenSSL installed via homebrew
>
> My code runs just fine in interpreted mode (csi -s myprogram.scm). My goal
> is to compile to static binary. I use the following on linux to
> successfully achieve this:
>
> csc -static myprogram.scm -L -lssl -L -lcrypto -o myprogram
>
> On my mac I receive the following error:
>
> ld: library not found for -lssl
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)
>
> Things I've tried (from the recommendation that homebrew outputs after
> installing openssl):
>
> export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/lib"
> export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/include"
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/lib/pkgconfig"
>
> I have also followed the advice of a previous mailing list response from
> 2019 that specified how to get openssl working on MacOS:
>
> brew install openssl
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib/pkgconfig"
> chicken-install openssl
>
> This has been what I've used to get the openssl egg working on a Mac.
> However, this doesn't seem to address the static compilation problem I'm
> encountering.
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>
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T. Kurt Bond, [email protected], https://tkurtbond.github.io
