Requires libssl-dev/openssl-devel to build

[yonatan8070]

When attempting to simply cargo install lstr I got a message from pkg-config saying it couldn't find openssl, I installed openssl-devel from the Fedora repos and it then completed successfully.

I think that adding that to the readme install instructions would be good

[brandongreenwell-8451]

Awesome, thank's @yonatan8070 for digging into this and posting the solution!

This is a build dependency issue in the older versions on Crates.io because of how the git2 dependency handled openssl. A recent PR (#5) actually just merged a fix for this on the main branch that removes the openssl dependency entirely, so this problem should be gone for good in the next release (v0.2.1).

If you want to grab/test the fixed version right now without waiting, you can install directly from git:

cargo install --git https://github.com/bgreenwell/lstr

I agree it's a good idea of adding a note to the README. I'll add a "Prerequisites" section to cover other common build tools just in case. Great suggestion! 👍

I'll go ahead and close this issue once the new version is published.