[Interest] Different SSL Library than system provided?

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Monday 29 June 2015, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday 29 June 2015 16:44:28 NoMercy wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > as a last measure of resort due to desperate endless online searches, I'm
> > asking to you if it is possible to not even try to load the system
> > provided SSL Library, instead maybe locally provided libssl.so &
> > libcrypto.so files?
> 
> Sure, it is possible.
> 
> > Yes the target system is a freebsd and it has the d*mn LibreSSL as
> > default and if you try to change it to OpenSSL (which QT can talk) it's
> > depencies are, well practically all the system ;)
> > 
> > Do I really have to statically recompiile all the Qt5 just for this?
> > (don't even know if it'll help)
> 
> If you're using a system Qt, it stands to reason that the system Qt has all
> its necessary dependencies installed. So this would not be causing you
> trouble. Therefore, I conclude you're not using a system-wide Qt.
> 
> You must be using a Qt deployed alongside your application. You can then
> just modify qsslsocket_openssl_symbols.cpp to search for your deployed
> libssl.so.1 and libcrypto.so.1.

I would assume LD_LIBRARY_PATH would also work on freebsd, or do we search 
specific paths instead of default ld paths?

`Allan