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Building bitcoin/litecoin on mac os x missing EC.h

For my own fun, I was playing around with bitcoin, to check how the parameters of the cryptocurrencies can be modified.

 After recent upgrades to my OS, I could not build any longer the bitcoind. Seems like something changed on that side. Now this command
./configure --with-gui=qt5 --enable-debug

Was sistematically producing 

configure: error: OpenSSL ec header missing


EC is the file for elliptic curve cryptography. I had brew correctly configured, and the header files were all correctly present. After some time spent inspecting the issue, on github I was able to find the solution for this problem. I simply add to export the following



export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib









export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include







There is aksi pull request on bitcoin for that, I hope I could save you some time





https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6885/files?diff=split&unchanged=expanded

Comments

Unknown said…
I have the same problem. Through

brew info openssl,

it says something like
"openssl ... (bottled).

Does that mean the openssl from brew doesn't have certain cipher like ec?

I tried to compile from source code myself, but haven't been able to solve the problem. It can be that I messed up at some steps. It will be very helpful if there is automatic step like brew for OsX.
11/15/2015 04:17:00 AM
Francesco De Collibus said…
When something is bottled into brew, it means is not automatically linked in /usr/local/lib . This happens because mac os x is shipped with another openssl implementation who could potentially conflict with the one from brew. That's why it's not automatically linked, but you have to explicitly do it
11/15/2015 06:28:00 PM
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