Re: Version of OpenSSl ?

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 04:04, Grant Edwards via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:

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On 2025-02-09, Left Right via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
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You need the sources of the OpenSSL library, not the compiled library.
On Ubuntu, the packages with sources are typically named xxx-dev where
xxx is the package that provides the library. I don't have a Ubuntu
currently, but try looking for something like openssl-dev or
libopenssl-dev etc.

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Do the <library>-dev packages on Ubuntu really contain the sources for
the libraries?

No they don't, and Mr "Left Right" is talking out his, uhh, "Back". :)

I knew they contained the static libraries and the include files
required to build against the libraries, but I didn't think they
contained the library sources.

They contain everything you need to link to the library. That usually
means headers and libraries, and also pkgconfig files to point to
their locations, plus anything else you might need. But no sources.
That's the job of source archives.

ChrisA