configure failure on linux

[cdburke]

Install 1.2.1 on linux mint 19.1 fails on "checking for library containing AES_encrypt".

~/download/scrypt-1.2.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... none needed
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ar... ar
checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for library containing clock_gettime... none required
checking for clock_gettime... yes
checking for library containing AES_encrypt... no
configure: error: function AES_ENCRYPT not found

[gperciva]

Thanks for the report! Did you install openssl headers? I believe they're in the libssl-dev package.

[cdburke]

Thanks! Installing libssl-dev fixed it.

[fullstackrajkumar]

Thanks for the report! Did you install openssl headers? I believe they're in the libssl-dev package.

Thanks for the comment, it's working for me