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Fix: fix openssl not being found during nix build#50

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Fix: fix openssl not being found during nix build#50
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@Suya1671 Suya1671 commented Mar 1, 2026

I tried to nix run github:VERT-sh/vertd, which fails when builting vertd-deps.

  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_STATIC
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_DYNAMIC
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_STATIC
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_DYNAMIC
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR


  Could not find openssl via pkg-config:
  Could not run `PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags openssl`
  The pkg-config command could not be found.

  Most likely, you need to install a pkg-config package for your OS.
  Try `apt install pkg-config`, or `yum install pkg-config`,
  or `pkg install pkg-config`, or `apk add pkgconfig` depending on your distribution.

  If you've already installed it, ensure the pkg-config command is one of the
  directories in the PATH environment variable.

  If you did not expect this build to link to a pre-installed system library,
  then check documentation of the openssl-sys crate for an option to
  build the library from source, or disable features or dependencies
  that require pkg-config.

  cargo:warning=Could not find directory of OpenSSL installation, and this `-sys` crate cannot proceed without this knowledge. If OpenSSL is installed and this crate had trouble finding it,  you can set the `OPENSSL_DIR` environment variable for the com>

  --- stderr


  Could not find directory of OpenSSL installation, and this `-sys` crate cannot
  proceed without this knowledge. If OpenSSL is installed and this crate had
  trouble finding it,  you can set the `OPENSSL_DIR` environment variable for the
  compilation process.

  Make sure you also have the development packages of openssl installed.
  For example, `libssl-dev` on Ubuntu or `openssl-devel` on Fedora.

  If you're in a situation where you think the directory *should* be found
  automatically, please open a bug at https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl
  and include information about your system as well as this message.

  $HOST = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  $TARGET = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  openssl-sys = 0.9.106


  It looks like you're compiling on Linux and also targeting Linux. Currently this
  requires the `pkg-config` utility to find OpenSSL but unfortunately `pkg-config`
  could not be found. If you have OpenSSL installed you can likely fix this by
  installing `pkg-config`.

Looking at the flake, I saw on

vertd/flake.nix

Lines 62 to 66 in ed746da

nativeBuildInputs = [
pkgs.makeWrapper
pkgs.pkg-config
pkgs.openssl
];
that openssl is only on the buildPackage, and not commonArgs so it's also included for cargoArtifacts. I also moved openssl to buildDependencies since it's a runtime dependency as well as build time.

I wonder if it's feasible to rather use rustls over openssl so this isn't needed at all

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