NOTES FOR UNIX LIKE PLATFORMS

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 For Unix/POSIX runtime systems on Windows, please see NOTES.WIN.

 OpenSSL uses the compiler to link programs and shared libraries

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 OpenSSL's generated Makefile uses the C compiler command line to

 link programs, shared libraries and dynamically loadable shared

 objects.  Because of this, any linking option that's given to the

 configuration scripts MUST be in a form that the compiler can accept.

 This varies between systems, where some have compilers that accept

 linker flags directly, while others take them in '-Wl,' form.  You need

 to read your compiler documentation to figure out what is acceptable,

 and ld(1) to figure out what linker options are available.

 Shared libraries and installation in non-default locations

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 Every Unix system has its own set of default locations for shared

 libraries, such as /lib, /usr/lib or possibly /usr/local/lib.  If

 libraries are installed in non-default locations, dynamically linked

 binaries will not find them and therefore fail to run, unless they get

 a bit of help from a defined runtime shared library search path.

 For OpenSSL's application (the 'openssl' command), our configuration

 scripts do NOT generally set the runtime shared library search path for

 you.  It's therefore advisable to set it explicitly when configuring,

 unless the libraries are to be installed in directories that you know

 to be in the default list.

 Runtime shared library search paths are specified with different

 linking options depending on operating system and versions thereof, and

 are talked about differently in their respective documentation;

 variations of RPATH are the most usual (note: ELF systems have two such

 tags, more on that below).

 Possible options to set the runtime shared library search path include

 the following:

    -Wl,-rpath,/whatever/path	# Linux, *BSD, etc.

    -R /whatever/path		# Solaris

    -Wl,-R,/whatever/path	# AIX (-bsvr4 is passed internally)

    -Wl,+b,/whatever/path	# HP-UX

    -rpath /whatever/path	# Tru64, IRIX

 OpenSSL's configuration scripts recognise all these options and pass

 them to the Makefile that they build. (In fact, all arguments starting

 with '-Wl,' are recognised as linker options.)

 Please do not use verbatim directories in your runtime shared library

 search path!  Some OpenSSL config targets add an extra directory level

 for multilib installations.  To help with that, the produced Makefile

 includes the variable LIBRPATH, which is a convenience variable to be

 used with the runtime shared library search path options, as shown in

 this example:

    $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl \

        '-Wl,-rpath,$(LIBRPATH)'

 On modern ELF based systems, there are two runtime search paths tags to

 consider, DT_RPATH and DT_RUNPATH.  Shared objects are searched for in

 this order:

    1. Using directories specified in DT_RPATH, unless DT_RUNPATH is

       also set.

    2. Using the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH

    3. Using directories specified in DT_RUNPATH.

    4. Using system shared object caches and default directories.

 This means that the values in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH

 won't matter if the library is found in the paths given by DT_RPATH

 (and DT_RUNPATH isn't set).

 Exactly which of DT_RPATH or DT_RUNPATH is set by default appears to

 depend on the system.  For example, according to documentation,

 DT_RPATH appears to be deprecated on Solaris in favor of DT_RUNPATH,

 while on Debian GNU/Linux, either can be set, and DT_RPATH is the

 default at the time of writing.

 How to choose which runtime search path tag is to be set depends on

 your system, please refer to ld(1) for the exact information on your

 system.  As an example, the way to ensure the DT_RUNPATH is set on

 Debian GNU/Linux systems rather than DT_RPATH is to tell the linker to

 set new dtags, like this:

    $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl \

        '-Wl,--enable-new-dtags,-rpath,$(LIBRPATH)'

 It might be worth noting that some/most ELF systems implement support

 for runtime search path relative to the directory containing current

 executable, by interpreting $ORIGIN along with some other internal

 variables. Consult your system documentation.

 Linking your application

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 Third-party applications dynamically linked with OpenSSL (or any other)

 shared library face exactly the same problem with non-default locations.

 The OpenSSL config options mentioned above might or might not have bearing

 on linking of the target application. "Might" means that under some

 circumstances it would be sufficient to link with OpenSSL shared library

 "naturally", i.e. with -L/whatever/path -lssl -lcrypto. But there are

 also cases when you'd have to explicitly specify runtime search path

 when linking your application. Consult your system documentation and use

 above section as inspiration...

 Shared OpenSSL builds also install static libraries. Linking with the

 latter is likely to require special care, because linkers usually look

 for shared libraries first and tend to remain "blind" to static OpenSSL

 libraries. Referring to system documentation would suffice, if not for

 a corner case. On AIX static libraries (in shared build) are named

 differently, add _a suffix to link with them, e.g. -lcrypto_a.