Installing PHP5: "Error, SSL/TLS libraries were missing or unusable"

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 02:28, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:

> I did a successful install like this:
>
> 	sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 +server

The php5 port does not have a +server variant.

If you were trying to get a mysql5 server out of this, then you need  
to do two separate commands:

sudo port install mysql5 +server
sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5


> Now, I discovered that php5 wasn't configured with postgres, that's  
> why I wanted to repeat the process, this time using the postgres  
> variant.
>
> So, I did an uninstall and clean of php5, mysql5 and apache2, and  
> entered this:
>
> 	sudo port install php5 +postgresql +pear +universal +macosx  
> +apache2 +mysql5 +server

You don't need to specify +macosx; MacPorts automatically selects  
this variant if you are running on Mac OS X.

Most people don't need +universal. Do you really need to run this  
software on both a PowerPC and an Intel Mac? If not, don't use  
+universal. If you do use +universal, then you must make sure that  
you have already compiled all dependencies with +universal too.


> But then I received the following error message:
>
>
> checking for openssl/ssl.h... yes
> OK
> checking openssl/engine.h usability... yes
> checking openssl/engine.h presence... yes
> checking for openssl/engine.h... yes
> checking for SSLeay_version in -lcrypto... no
> checking for SSL_CTX_new in -lssl... no
> checking for ENGINE_init... no
> checking for ENGINE_load_builtin_engines... no
> checking for SSL_set_cert_store... no
> configure: error: ... Error, SSL/TLS libraries were missing or  
> unusable
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: apache2
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> What does that mean? What can I do?