OpenSSL 1.0.2m on macOS

Question

For building one particular library I need openssl library version 1.0.2m with devel package. I am working on macOS. Using brew install openssl installs latest

Answer 1

Other solutions won't work because you will get this error "Calling Installation of openssl from a GitHub commit URL is disabled! Use 'brew extract openssl' to stable tap on GitHub instead." the following steps will fix it:

1. First go to the local installation of homebrew

cd /usr/local/Homebrew/

2. Homebrew 2.5 remove the option to install formulas directly from git repos so we need to checkout an older version

git checkout 2.3.0

3. Install openssl latest 1.0.x version

HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install https://github.com/tebelorg/Tump/releases/download/v1.0.0/openssl.rb

4. Go back to current version of homebrew

git co -

5. Tell brew to use the old version of openssl this way you can chose wich version to use if you have both intalled

brew switch openssl 1.0.2t