I am working in a corporate environment where production servers are not allowed to have C compiler installed. I need to install Crypt::SSLeay for LWP SSL support.

I am using a version of Crypt::SSLeay that was built on a Solaris 9 development server with OpenSSL 0.9.7e installed. This dev server has gcc and a Perl distribution from Sun. I have moved the built modules and libraries to the production server which is a Solaris 8 server with OpenSSL 0.9.7c installed and an ActiveState Perl 5.8.7 distribution.

When I try and load the module using perl -MCrypt::SSLeay I get: 

Can't load '/opt/support/verity/iscripts/lib/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.
+so' for module Crypt::SSLeay: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error:
+ file /opt/support/verity/iscripts/lib/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.so: s
+ymbol PL_markstack_ptr: referenced symbol not found at /opt/ActivePer
+l-5.8/lib/5.8.7/sun4-solaris-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at - line 0
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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I suspect that this indicates a binary incompatibility, the source of which could be any of the components that are different. My choices with respect to fixing the problem appear to be :

  1. Upgrade the OpenSSL version.
  2. Match the Perl installations.
  3. Install gcc and rebuild the module. I can then save the built files and have the server re-built.

Can anyone comment on the problem and suggest solutions?

In reply to Crypt::SSLeay binary version problem on Solaris by inman

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