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I am trying to install Apache Thrift on my Mac, but am hitting an issue. I followed the installation steps on this page, but when I try to do the steps for installing libevent, I get the following error when running the make command:

fatal error because of 'openssl/bio.h' file not found

Screenshot of actual error

I've checked the version of openSSL I'm using, and it's "0.9.8zg"

Any advice on what I should do to fix this?

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Lewis-Eric
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    If you just want to install Thrift, why not `brew install thrift` ? – Shoham Jun 06 '17 at 07:42

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I'm on El Capitan 10.11.6 and i had the issue while installing manually the mongodb php extension.

I solved it following the indications of @user7059092 about the configure stage :

$./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include'

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I've the same problem while installing Thrift like others. In my case I solve following the next Jira:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER-941

Another approach is, after "brew install openssl", to do "brew link openssl --force", which installs headers to /usr/local/include/openssl. 

$ brew install openssl 
$ brew link openssl --force

For some reason, Homebrew's own pkg-config knows that OpenSSL is homebrewed only once you run "link openssl --force":

$ pkg-config --variable=includedir openssl

/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2d_1/include

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I was also running into this problem when installing apache Thrift and here is how I solved it for my system setup.

My operating system is El Capitan (10.11.1) with all the latest updates installed and I used MacPorts to install openssl (version 1.0.2e 3 Dec 2015). This installed openssl in /opt/local. In any case, try to find bio.h (for my case was located at /opt/local/include/openssl/bio.h) and you can probably tell where openssl is installed for your setup. When you are in the libevent folder and run:

./configure --help

you will see that 

--includedir=DIR        C header files [PREFIX/include]

Since PREFIX is /usr/local as per instructions, I just had to create a symlink in /usr/local/include.

cd /usr/local/include
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/openssl/ openssl

Now make executes without errors.

Bart Joosten
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Are you on El Capitan? That appeared to be my issue.

Jeremy's answer on this Puma issue worked for me:

https://github.com/puma/puma/issues/718

My issue was related to Puma gem specifically, but your issue might be similar if on El Capitan.

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  • Thank for your help,and I'm on EI Capitan,I do as Jeremy's answer,but I still can't work now, the error still out there.But I find I have no such directory like "/usr/local/opt/openssl",I only have directory like "/usr/local/openssl",but no matter which path I use, it still didn't work for me. Do you got some other solution? – Lewis-Eric Oct 20 '15 at 02:16
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    This solved my issue, thanks. Specifically: `gem install puma -- --with-opt-include=/usr/local/opt/openssl/include` – gdgr Nov 04 '15 at 11:52
  • @Lewis-Eric - i'd need to see more of the error log details to help. sorry. it looks like you have openssl installed, but for some reason the path isn't working. – jakeatwork Nov 20 '15 at 22:05
  • @Lewis-Eric hopefully this is resolved by now, but if not, `brew install openssl` should get the right version of OpenSSL for you. The specific comment that helped me was https://github.com/puma/puma/issues/718#issuecomment-139624081. Essentially, if you're using `bundle install`, it won't necessarily read the gem installed puma, so you need to set the global options for bundle/puma: `bundle config build.puma --with-opt-dir=/usr/local/opt/openssl` – jcasner Sep 25 '16 at 15:19
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for installing libevent on Mac: http://macappstore.org/libevent/

takeaway for this site:

  1. ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  2. brew install libevent

for the openssl error:

The cleanest method should be you tell the compiler to use MacOS's openssl by setting corresponding environment variables.

You can do that during the configure stage:

./configure CXXFLAGS='-I /usr/local/bin -L usr/local/include'

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I stole this hint from Rasmus@netflix.dynomite.build and it worked as a charm for me on an unrelated work problem:

brew install openssl@1.1
OPENSSL_ROOT=$(brew --cellar openssl)/$(brew list --versions openssl | tr ' ' '\n' | tail -1)
./configure "--with-openssl=$OPENSSL_ROOT"
ln -s $OPENSSL_ROOT/include/openssl openssl
LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:$OPENSSL_ROOT/lib make
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