Hi all
I'm newbie to asterisk; I'm trying to install asterisk but I'm getting the folowing error :

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [asterisk] Error 1


you will say that I don't have openssl installed but I have 8)
Thank you for any sugestions ...

I have installed asterisk on Slackware(10.0) many times and I didn't get error like this..

Find libssl:
updatedb
locate libssl
I guess U will see smth like this:
/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7
U need to make a symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 /usr/lib/libssl.so
Good luck!

THIS WORKED OUT - many thanks. But there is the follow :( ???
I have openssl compiled and installed v0.9.7e but asterisk is not compiling :(

gcc -pipe -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -g -Iinclude -I../include -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O6 -march=i686 -DASTERISK_VERSION=\"1.0.5\" -DINSTALL_PREFIX=\"\" -DASTETCDIR=\"/etc/asterisk\" -DASTLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/asterisk\" -DASTVARLIBDIR=\"/var/lib/asterisk\" -DASTVARRUNDIR=\"/var/run\" -DASTSPOOLDIR=\"/var/spool/asterisk\" -DASTLOGDIR=\"/var/log/asterisk\" -DASTCONFPATH=\"/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf\" -DASTMODDIR=\"/usr/lib/asterisk/modules\" -DASTAGIDIR=\"/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin\" -DBUSYDETECT_MARTIN -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -fPIC -c -o res_crypto.o res_crypto.c
res_crypto.c:27:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
res_crypto.c:28:25: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory
res_crypto.c:72: error: parse error before "RSA"
res_crypto.c:72: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
res_crypto.c:82: error: parse error before '}' token
res_crypto.c: In function `pw_cb':
res_crypto.c:99: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:101: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:101: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:102: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:104: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:106: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:107: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:113: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c: In function `ast_key_get':
res_crypto.c:124: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
res_crypto.c:124: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

The cause is missing openssl C headers:

res_crypto.c:27:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory

1) What is your distro? If redhat-like system, which uses rpm, install rpm-devel packets of openssl.
rpm -qa | grep ssl
rpm -i openssl-devel-x.x.x.rpm
use rpmfind.net to find the needed devel package:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=openssl-devel&submit=Search+...

2) If you really have devel installed, try:
locate ssl.h
export CFLAGS=-I/path/to/includes (without openssl/ as u can see)
make

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