Issues with not having different openssl version supported on newer linux distros

[SaladinAyyub]

I have a Fedora 33 machine with openssl version 1:1.1.1i-3 but its failing to build. Also an issue on any newer Linux Distro with newer openssl please see to it thanks.

[SaladinAyyub]

As a workaround Im using
reqwest = {version = "0.11.1", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"]}
But it also forces windows and Mac OS to use the native SSL binding as cargo won't add platform specific dependencies.

[seanmonstar]

It builds on most Linux systems (checked in CI). I'd recommend looking at the rust-openssl repository to see some things you can do to try to fix compilation.

[SaladinAyyub]

"error: failed to run custom build command for openssl v0.9.24" Tried everything, on Fedora and also on Arch. Newer distros wont have old openSSL support.

[SaladinAyyub]

Here is people talking about reqwest about this issue as this library don't support openssl on some distros
sfackler/rust-openssl#987
@seanmonstar 0.10 supports OpenSSL 1.0.1 and newer. And everyone wants it to be in reqwest and this is since 2018. :( Maybe it won't be supported for newer distros then only windows and mac. Thanks for the support anyway

[seanmonstar]

reqwest uses native-tls v0.2.x, which depends on openssl v0.10.x.

[SaladinAyyub]

rust-tls is working but on linux openssl is the default and it causes problem on newer distributions. Also many crates having reqwest support built in and it again uses openssl default on linux which causes fail compilation.