Building Old Erlang Versions with Old OpenSSL

09:00, November 1 2022

(This is more of a language-independent tech memo)

• Go to https://www.openssl.org/source/ and download the tar for OpenSSL 1.1.1 (here we’re using 1.1.1q)
• tar xvzf openssl-1.1.1q.tar.gz
• cd openssl-1.1.1q/
• ./config --prefix=/opt/openssl-1.1.1
• make
• make test
• sudo make install
• sudo mv /opt/openssl-1.1.1/ssl/certs /opt/openssl-1.1.1/ssl/certs.installed
• sudo ln -s /etc/ssl/certs /opt/openssl-1.1.1/ssl/certs
• export KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--disable-debug --disable-silent-rules --without-javac --enable-shared-zlib --enable-dynamic-ssl-lib --enable-hipe --enable-sctp --enable-smp-support --enable-threads --enable-kernel-poll --with-ssl=/opt/openssl-1.1.1"
• asdf install erlang 22.3.4.21