ERROR: - libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[driftywinds]

This is what it says when I try to open it up in the terminal

[avently]

Looks like you:

• don't have openssl installed -> install it via a package manager of your OS (on Ubuntu it's sudo apt install libssl-dev)
• don't have specific version of openssl installed (1.1) -> probably, nothing you can do if your OS doesn't have a 1.1 version
• don't have a symlink (libcrypto.so.1.1 to libcrypto.so) -> you can try to create a symlink yourself, like (in Ubuntu x64) sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1. Make sure the paths are correct in your OS.
  And then try to launch it again.

[kseistrup]

Many distros have upgraded OpenSSL from v1.* to v3.0.7, so the library is now libcrypto.so.3.

[solus-hq]

/o/homebrew/o/o/lib stable ❱ simplex-chat
dyld[87295]: Library not loaded: '/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib'
  Referenced from: '/Users/fire/.local/bin/simplex-chat'
  Reason: tried: '/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have (arm64), need (x86_64))), '/usr/local/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1s/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have (arm64), need (x86_64))), '/usr/local/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libcrypto.1.1.dylib' (no such file)
fish: Job 1, 'simplex-chat' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)

It's not working for ARM (M1)...

@epoberezkin

[epoberezkin]

The problem is that the binary in GitHub is compiled for Intel (GitHub doesn’t have M1 runners I think) and libcrypto you have installed is most likely for M1… A quick solution is to compile from source on M1, we might include libcrypto in the binary at some point though.

[solus-hq]

The problem is that the binary in GitHub is compiled for Intel (GitHub doesn’t have M1 runners I think) and libcrypto you have installed is most likely for M1… A quick solution is to compile from source on M1, we might include libcrypto in the binary at some point though.

GHCup was kind enough to install everything for me, I was just asked to add LLVM@13 during compilation but at some point something went wrong with the compile process:

Progress 22/114

--  While building package direct-sqlcipher-2.3.27 (scroll up to its section to see the error) using:
      /Users/fire/.stack/setup-exe-cache/aarch64-osx/Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_3.2.1.0_ghc-8.10.7 --verbose=1 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/aarch64-osx/Cabal-3.2.1.0 configure --with-ghc=/Users/fire/.stack/programs/aarch64-osx/ghc-8.10.7/bin/ghc-8.10.7 --with-ghc-pkg=/Users/fire/.stack/programs/aarch64-osx/ghc-8.10.7/bin/ghc-pkg-8.10.7 --user --package-db=clear --package-db=global --package-db=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/pkgdb --libdir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/lib --bindir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/bin --datadir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/share --libexecdir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/libexec --sysconfdir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/etc --docdir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/doc/direct-sqlcipher-2.3.27 --htmldir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/doc/direct-sqlcipher-2.3.27 --haddockdir=/Users/fire/.stack/snapshots/aarch64-osx/7c2eb0860757e07bb0396fb26db1225a5c5976980f83c2b5df9e32a2584fa5c1/8.10.7/doc/direct-sqlcipher-2.3.27 --dependency=base=base-4.14.3.0 --dependency=bytestring=bytestring-0.10.12.0 --dependency=text=text-1.2.4.1 -f-commoncrypto -ffulltextsearch -fhaveusleep -fjson1 -fopenssl -f-systemlib -f-tomcrypt -furifilenames --exact-configuration --ghc-option=-fhide-source-paths
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
~/simplex-chat stable 1m 39.2s | 1 ❱

direct-sqlcipher                 > Cabal-simple_mPHDZzAJ_3.2.1.0_ghc-8.10.7: Missing dependency on a foreign
direct-sqlcipher                 > library:
direct-sqlcipher                 > * Missing (or bad) C library: crypto
direct-sqlcipher                 > This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
direct-sqlcipher                 > provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
direct-sqlcipher                 > already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
direct-sqlcipher                 > --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.If the
direct-sqlcipher                 > library file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the C
direct-sqlcipher                 > compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure
direct-sqlcipher                 > with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages.
direct-sqlcipher                 >

[epoberezkin]

1. use cabal, it won't compile with stack - I'm updating the doc (there is an open PR, but not complete)
2. you need to add cabal.project.local pointing to the location of libcrypto - see CONTRIBUTING.md in docs folder.

[solus-hq]

1. use cabal, it won't compile with stack - I'm updating the doc (there is an open PR, but not complete)
2. you need to add cabal.project.local pointing to the location of libcrypto - see CONTRIBUTING.md in docs folder.

Did every step from your latest PR (using cabal) and still sqlcipher is failing to build =(

Failed to build direct-sqlcipher-2.3.27. The failure occurred during the
configure step.
Build log (
/Users/fire/.cabal/logs/ghc-8.10.7/drct-sqlcphr-2.3.27-271ee7ce.log ):
Configuring library for direct-sqlcipher-2.3.27..
cabal-3.6.2.0: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
* Missing (or bad) C library: crypto
This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
--extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.If the
library file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the C
compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure
with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages.

cabal: Failed to build direct-sqlcipher-2.3.27 (which is required by
exe:simplex-bot-advanced from simplex-chat-4.2.1, exe:simplex-bot from
simplex-chat-4.2.1 and others). See the build log above for details.

~/simplex-chat stable 1m 29s | 1 ❱ vim cabal.project.local

I have these options for OpenSSL, shall I install other package?

~/simplex-chat stable | 1 ❱ brew search openssl
==> Formulae
glib-openssl                                      openssh ✔                                         openfst
openssl@1.1 ✔                                     opensaml                                          opencsg
openssl@3                                         opensc                                            openmsx
openslp                                           open-sp                                           homebrew/portable-ruby/portable-openssl

It seems that your example is mentioning openssl@3, but I have @1.1 installed.

[solus-hq]

Having openssl@3 package installed resolves the problem, finally!

It took 18m 7s to compile from the simplex-chat repo on a Macbook Pro M1 with 16gb of RAM

[Snake883]

In the future I hope for Linux AppImage, Flatpak, or similar.

[westhighr]

I fixed the problem with the command sudo dnf install openssl1.1 on fedora with the package manager dnf.

[tomquas]

failed to build on macos-arm64, too.

$ docker build .
...
#7 47.67 [ Info  ] Unpacking: ghc-8.10.7-aarch64-deb10-linux.tar.xz to /root/.ghcup/tmp/ghcup-ab8065eeee4453d0
#7 70.45 [ Info  ] Installing GHC (this may take a while)

#7 71.97
#7 71.97
#7 71.97
#7 71.97
#7 71.97
#7 74.76 [ Error ] [GHCup-00841] Process "make" with arguments ["DESTDIR=/root/.ghcup/tmp/ghcup-cb24028a5d988ddd",
#7 74.76 [ ...   ]                                "install"] failed with exit code 2.
#7 74.76 [ Error ] Also check the logs in /root/.ghcup/logs
------
executor failed running [/bin/sh -c ghcup install ghc 8.10.7]: exit code: 3

the cli would be really handy for some testing...

[JakeTrock]

For those using linux(maybe x86 mac too) this may be helpful: #1762

[maxwell-kalin]

Doesnt work on ubuntu or anything based on it

[doomguy]

Since I also got an openssl error when trying to run the CLI on Apple Silicon, I tried to compile it with Docker to no avail:

% DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --output build/. .
[+] Building 217.4s (8/16)                                                                                                                                                                    
 => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 841B                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => [internal] load .dockerignore                                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => => transferring context: 2B                                                                                                                                                          0.0s
 => [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/ubuntu:focal                                                                                                                          5.9s
 => [build  1/11] FROM docker.io/library/ubuntu:focal@sha256:db8bf6f4fb351aa7a26e27ba2686cf35a6a409f65603e59d4c203e58387dc6b3                                                            1.4s
 => => resolve docker.io/library/ubuntu:focal@sha256:db8bf6f4fb351aa7a26e27ba2686cf35a6a409f65603e59d4c203e58387dc6b3                                                                    0.0s
 => => sha256:db8bf6f4fb351aa7a26e27ba2686cf35a6a409f65603e59d4c203e58387dc6b3 1.13kB / 1.13kB                                                                                           0.0s
 => => sha256:144e6a778925a0c11c4cd9fe5fce1172e620f215b0410bb43e7fa41bbcfe4522 424B / 424B                                                                                               0.0s
 => => sha256:758cd4ebb2178eb0cd2ce78dea8ffad569f5bba415c4b33b694e891e7697e854 2.32kB / 2.32kB                                                                                           0.0s
 => => sha256:8659cf1709ef03be2c0b2dc339b19432bff8a0753d2d7d53f47272f098f56ef4 25.97MB / 25.97MB                                                                                         0.8s
 => => extracting sha256:8659cf1709ef03be2c0b2dc339b19432bff8a0753d2d7d53f47272f098f56ef4                                                                                                0.5s
 => [internal] load build context                                                                                                                                                        1.1s
 => => transferring context: 112.54MB                                                                                                                                                    1.1s
 => [build  2/11] RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl git build-essential libgmp3-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev                                                                   15.2s
 => [build  3/11] RUN a=$(arch); curl https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghcup/$a-linux-ghcup -o /usr/bin/ghcup &&     chmod +x /usr/bin/ghcup                                               4.6s
 => ERROR [build  4/11] RUN ghcup install ghc 8.10.7                                                                                                                                   190.1s 
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 > [build  4/11] RUN ghcup install ghc 8.10.7:                                                                                                                                                
#7 0.137 [ Info  ] downloading: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/master/ghcup-0.0.7.yaml as file /root/.ghcup/cache/ghcup-0.0.7.yaml                                  
#7 0.145   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                                                                                      
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#7 0.475 [ Info  ] downloading: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7-aarch64-deb10-linux.tar.xz as file /root/.ghcup/tmp/ghcup-ff7dcda0e81a5f9c/ghc-8.10.7-aarch64-deb10-linux.tar.xz
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#7 161.4 [ Info  ] verifying digest of: ghc-8.10.7-aarch64-deb10-linux.tar.xz
#7 162.6 [ Info  ] Unpacking: ghc-8.10.7-aarch64-deb10-linux.tar.xz to /root/.ghcup/tmp/ghcup-f934ddd467fff8db
#7 185.0 [ Info  ] Installing GHC (this may take a while)

#7 186.6 
#7 186.6 
#7 186.6 
#7 186.6 
#7 186.6 
#7 189.7 [ Error ] [GHCup-00841] Process "make" with arguments ["DESTDIR=/root/.ghcup/tmp/ghcup-598f9a8b08ea4182",
#7 189.7 [ ...   ]                                "install"] failed with exit code 2.
#7 189.7 [ Error ] Also check the logs in /root/.ghcup/logs
------
executor failed running [/bin/sh -c ghcup install ghc 8.10.7]: exit code: 3

[WilhelmFreiheitsberg]

For those using linux(maybe x86 mac too) this may be helpful: #1762

Just did what JakeTrock suggested and it's working fine!

My OS is Ubuntu 22.04

[i18nde]

For those using linux(maybe x86 mac too) this may be helpful: #1762

Just did what JakeTrock suggested and it's working fine!

My OS is Ubuntu 22.04

Thank you, worked like a charm. But, it cannot be a long-lasting solution.

[ralyodio]

doesn't work on ubuntu 22.04. oh well. back to signal i guess.

[kseistrup]

@ralyodio

Please notice that there are two pre-compiled binaries with ubuntu in the name:

• simplex-chat-ubuntu-20_04-x86-64 ← linked against libcrypto.so.1.1
• simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64 ← linked against libcrypto.so.3

If the one you installed didn't work, try the other one.

[ralyodio]

where do I download them??

[kseistrup]

@ralyodio

Frome the “Releases” section:

• https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases

The latest stable release is v5.5.1:

• https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases/tag/v5.5.1

[ralyodio]

$ sudo dpkg -i simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64  
dpkg-deb: error: 'simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64' is not a Debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64 (--install):
 dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64

[kseistrup]

Those are just uncompressed binaries with a very long name, not Debian packages.

Choose one that ends in .deb.

[kseistrup]

PS: [I am not a Ubuntu user] I can see that the .deb packages are for the desktop version. If that is not what you want, you'll have to install the one you tried before manually, e.g.:

# Assuming that the name in the installed binary is “simplex-chat”,
# otherwise adjust:
$ sudo install -m 0755 -s simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64 /usr/bin/simplex-chat

---

edit: typo

[ralyodio]

I only see the desktop version in .deb. i want the cli version.

[kseistrup]

Yes, and therefore I suggested that you install the CLI version manually — i.e., outside of the packaging system.

[ralyodio]

how do i do that?

[kseistrup]

It seems you earlier downloaded simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64 — the one you attempted to install as a debian package with sudo dpkg -i.

If you cd to the directory with that file and do this:

sudo install -m 0755 -s simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64 /usr/bin/simplex-chat

it will install the executable in /usr/bin and it can be launched from the CLI as simplex-chat.

After you have installed it in /usr/bin you can delete the file with the long filename.

---

Here's a breakdown of what the command does:

• https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=sudo+install+-m+0755+-s+simplex-chat-ubuntu-22_04-x86-64+%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fsimplex-chat