Unanswered question from http://ruby-forum.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=340
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Here's something along these lines I was wondering about. I was looking to implement Net::SSH to create some GUI admin utilities. My admin workstation is a Win32 box. I tried installing Net::SSH, the OpenSSL-snapshot, as well as the Needle package.
Checking the RAA I saw another OpenSSL project called RubyPKI (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/openssl). But the download directory is empty and the project maintainer has an invalid e-mail address. I am assuming that this is a dead duck? In any event, on to Net::SSH and its dependencies.
I was able to install both Needle and Net::SSH on my Win32 box, but when I tried to run the extconf.rb script against the OpenSSL-snapshot I received an error message stating that the openssl/ssl.h file couldn't be located. I have copied the OpenSSL C headers into various places along the search path (e.g. - the root directory of the OpenSSL-snapshot, the local ruby/include directory, etc.), as well as appended the PATH to include the OpenSSL C header files. Still no luck. I also tried running the extconf.rb script using both the --with-debug and the --with-openssldir=/my/path options. Still no luck.
Here's an excerpt from the mkmf.log file:
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have_header: checking for openssl/ssl.h... -------------------- no
"cl -IC:/ruby/openssl-snapshot-20040726 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 conftest.c -P"
checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <openssl/ssl.h>
/* end */
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