"cannot find -lssl; cannot find -lcrypto" when installing mysql-python? - pip

Question

I'm struggling to install the mysql-python pip either systemwide or in a venv on Ubuntu 14.04 with MariaDB 10 installed. Also tried with MariaDB 5.5 and getting the same error. I don't have this issue with vanilla mysql-server installed.
I have the following installed via apt-get:
build-essential
python-dev
libmariadbclient-dev (thats the MariaDB replacement for libmysqlclient-dev)
python-mysqldb
Originally I thought this was an issue installing this into a venv but I've subsequently noticed mysql-python won't install systemwide either. Below are the cmds I used to install in a venv.
virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install mysql-python==1.2.5
In file included from _mysql.c:44:0:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:439:0: warning: "HAVE_WCSCOLL" redefined [enabled by default]
#define HAVE_WCSCOLL
^
In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h:3:0,
from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:8,
from _mysql.c:29:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/pyconfig.h:911:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define HAVE_WCSCOLL 1
^x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.o -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmariadbclient_r -lpthread -lz -lm -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /root/env/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/root/env/build/mysql- python/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-EyhO2v-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /root/env/include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1 in /root/env/build/mysql-python
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

Answer 1

You need to have installed the development libraries of OpenSSL. It can be a libssl-dev, libssl-devel if your distribution provides separated packages for the dev libraries. Or install the complete openssl package if they don't.
(venv)➜ src pip install mysql-python==1.2.5
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python==1.2.5
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB): 108kB downloaded
Running setup.py (path:/home/braiam/src/venv/build/mysql-python/setup.py) egg_info for package mysql-python
Installing collected packages: mysql-python
Running setup.py install for mysql-python
building '_mysql' extension
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -Dversion_info=(1,2,5,'final',1) -D__version__=1.2.5 -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.o -DBIG_JOINS=1 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -static-libgcc -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing
In file included from _mysql.c:44:0:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:439:0: warning: "HAVE_WCSCOLL" redefined
#define HAVE_WCSCOLL
^
In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h:3:0,
from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:8,
from _mysql.c:29:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7/pyconfig.h:911:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define HAVE_WCSCOLL 1
^
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.o -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmariadbclient_r -lpthread -lz -lm -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.so
Successfully installed mysql-python
Cleaning up...
But, there were two messages that you have that I didn't, namely:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
Which if you did ld -lcrypto --verbose or ld -lssl --verbose wouldn't produce this results:
➜ src ld -lcrypto --verbose | grep succeeded
attempt to open //usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so succeeded
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address
➜ src ld -lssl --verbose | grep succeeded
attempt to open //usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so succeeded
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address
So, to fix this just make sure you have installed the libssl-dev package which provides both libraries.

Answer 2

I meet the similar error on MacOS but there is no "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl" for me.
Solved with the following steps:
Step 1. Make sure you have installed openssl with homebrew.
brew install openssl
Step 2. In a terminal:
export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/
For Linux you can also try yum install your missing library and add them to LIBRARY_PATH.

Answer 3

For Debian 9.x:
apt install libssl-dev

Answer 4

For CentOS:
sudo yum install openssl-devel