How to use OpenSSL with GCC?

Question

I\'m trying to use openssl in a gcc program but it isn\'t working.

g++ server.cpp /usr/lib/libssl.a -o server

gives an error message, as d

Answer 1

On top of the accepted answers, I could not make compile the OpenSSL example for AES-CCM:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/demos/evp/aesccm.c

To make it work I needed to add two more things:

• The Dinamic Linking Library : -ldl
• The PThread library to use POSIX threading support: -pthread (Adding directly the library with -lpthread is not recommended )