Linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1 When using quiche crate

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I wanted to build an app that use quic protocol, using the quiche crate, the problem is when I run (using cargo 1.5.3) :

cargo build

I'm getting :

linking with cc failed: exit status: 1 and some errors related to undefined reference to SSL_CTX_ctrl'`

Once I remove the quiche crate from my Cargo.toml the app build successfully.

Any ideas why my build failed when I'm using quiche ?

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This looks like problem linking with OpenSSL (or the BoringSSL flavor that quiche uses). Do you have it installed? Is it new-enough version?

You can also try enabling boringssl-vendored feature in quiche to compile BoringSSL. You're going to need cmake installed for this.

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Hi thanks for the reply, yes I do have openSSl installed "OpenSSL 1.1.1k 25 Mar 2021"...unfortunately enabling the feature boringssl-vendored didn't fix the problem.

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Any more thoughts or progress on this problem? I'm having the same issue myself.

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I figured out how to fix this. the problem occurred because I had reqwest crate in my toml...since it uses openssl too, there were some conflicts....so I had to enable this feature : reqwest = { version="0.xx", default-features=false, features=["rustls-tls"] } to fix the conflicts.

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great. thank you! was able to find he offending dependency that included SSL and remove it.

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Yes, in general using rustls will save you from alot of these compiling problems (as opposed to native-tls). Also, if the only available crate for a project is native-tls, you can use the "vendored" feature to make cross-compiling more friendly.

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