help me with including openssl libraries (macos)

[wary sand]

i have already installed openssl. when i try to include a library like this:
#include <openssl/sha.h>
the ide tells me to update my include paths.
i don't know how to do that pls help

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[umbral sun]

so you dont know how include paths work, and you want to use a 3-rd party library

what do you need openssl for

[lone otter]

What IDE?

[wary sand]

i have vscode

[wary sand]

calculate sha-1 hashing

[umbral sun]

if that's the only thing, consider running the shell command sha1sum in linux, or Get-FileHash in windows powershell

[lone otter]

I do not use VS Code, so I am unsure. But, I think you can create a c_cpp_properties.json file in the .vscode folder of your project and add one or more includePath elements that point to the install location of the openSSL include direcctory. The exact format of that .json file I am unable to provide, but I suspect can be found with some searches in the VS Code help or google.

[wary sand]

how do i locate the location of the openSSL include directory. I'm struggling to find that

[lone otter]

It will be wherever you installed it when you ran the setup script. If you want to brute force search the entire machine you can use windows explorer and search "This PC" for sha.h. Using the command prompt window you could change directory to root (cd \) and the dir /B/S sha.h and then go get a cup of coffee and wait for the results.

[velvet cargo]

Have you looked into /usr/include

Usually libraries like SDL2 are found there

[velvet cargo]

do you get an error when compiling or is it just vscode intellisense giving errors