Using vendored OpenSSL in another framework

Using Swift
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Thanks! You’re using the OpenSSL 1.1 headers where all types are made opaque (forward declared C struct pointers). Swift imports opaque C types as OpaquePointer and not UnsafePointer<struct>. This unfortunately means that whilst in C you can write programs that work fine against OpenSSL 1.0 & 1.1, in Swift this is very hard (because OpenSSL 1.0’s types import as UnsafePointer<struct> and 1.1’s types as OpaquePointer).

You have basically 2 options:

  • install the OpenSSL 1.0 headers
  • use the OpenSSL 1.1 API which in Swift means OpaquePointer everywhere :frowning: (for more information on that topic check this Opaque Pointers in Swift )

If you want a quick win, you might want to switch to Ubuntu 16.04 which defaults to OpenSSL 1.0 everywhere. Sad but easy :grimacing: