Linking to libcrypto for Leopard?

Question

I am using Mac OS X 10.6 SDK and my deployment target is set to Mac OS 10.5. I\'m linking to libcrypto (AquaticPrime requires this) and found out that my app doesn\'t launc

Answer 1

Leopard OS X ships with a libcrypto and libssl that only has the ppc architecture.

A simple solution that doesn't require changing the code of the app is to backup your libcrypto.0.9.dylib, libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib, libssl0.9.dylib, libssl.0.9.8.dylib and copy over the libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib and libssl.0.9.7.dylib.

You can use Terminal.app to make these changes in your Applications folder:

  cd /usr/lib
  sudo cp libcrypto.0.9.dylib libcrypto.0.9.dylib.old
  sudo cp libssl.0.9.dylib libssl.0.9.dylib.old
  sudo ln -sf libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib libcrypto.0.9.dylib
  sudo ln -sf libssl.0.9.7.dylib libssl.0.9.dylib

Here's an alternative solution that lets you stay on the freshest openssl version:

  1. reactivate the current openssl: port activate openssl@1.0.0c_0 (or whatever)
  2. clean up your old unwanted versions of everything: port uninstall inactive
  3. uninstall badly behaved ports: port uninstall md5sha1sum subversion neon
  4. get them back: port install subversion md5sha1sum