Re: Compiling PHP 7.3 with latest OpenSSL

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:51 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > On 18.06.2019 at 18:29, Pete Cooper wrote: > > > My questions: > > > > * Is it possible to compile PHP 7.3 with OpenSSL source? > > No. PHP looks for the headers and the libraries, so the sources are not > sufficient. > Thank you for the clarification. > > * Does using --with-openssl and > > --with-openssl-dir together force the > > system-native version to be used because --with-openssl > > appears before > > --with-openssl-dir? > > These configuration options are used by different PHP extensions. PHP's > OpenSSL extension uses --with-openssl. --with-openssl-dir is used by > the FTP and the SNMP extension; if you don't need these, you can ignore > --with-openssl-dir altogether. > > In any way, config.log is your friend. If the configuration fails, > there should be some useful info about what went wrong. > Now I understand. I was using --with-openssl-dir=[DIR] when I should actually have been using --with-openssl=[DIR]. Thank you for your insight and advice, Christoph -- I am grateful for your time and assistance.