Thanks for the clarification Josef. But it turns out the application had a dependency specifically on <cryptopp/*>. So I went ahead and ported it. Barring some test files which were thrown undefined references, I was able to build the library. So far, so good.

But, here is the problem. I filled the directories of cryptopp include, and the new library (it's called ndn-cxx) I'm porting has its dependency in this crypto++ lib. I've added it to the LIBS of ndn-cxx. One of the files called random.cpp #includes a list of <cryptopp/*> header files, which defines a set of SeededRandom number classes. For some reason or the other, it throws an error saying "'SeededRandom number' in namespace CryptoPP does not name a type", even though it is present in the header file.

A similar error happens when I try to compile the files without specifying the $(notdir ...) option in the .mk file of lib/mk of ndn-cxx. Any ideas will help, because I'm very nearly done with the port and I'm out of ideas. Sorry if it seems like a bit of a rant.

Thanks and regards

Aditya

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Josef Söntgen <josef.soentgen@...1...> wrote:

Hello Aditya,

* Aditya Kousik <adit267.kousik@...9...> [2015-05-05 11:45:29 -0700]:

> To use libcrypto++, I found online that openssl will suffice. But while
> there is a port file for both libraries, there's no openssl.mk in lib/mk.
> Grepping the mk files I saw a line in libcrypto.inc which calls
> select_from_ports,openssl. So, is it the case that we prepare_port for
> openssl but add LIBS += libcrypto in our target.mk files?

Yes, libcrypto as well as libssl are part of OpenSSL, so you have to
prepare it when you want to use one of these libraries.

Regards
Josef

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