Re: How to test a build of the FIPS provider

You can build OpenSSL to be installed in a separate directory, e.g.
$HOME/openssl, by calling Configure with parameters --prefix=$HOME/openssl
--libdir=lib --openssldir=$HOME/openssl -Wl,-rpath,$HOME/openssl/lib

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 00:49, Ken Goldman <kgoldman-r/[email protected]> wrote:

> Fedora 42, x86 - I built openssl 3.6.1 with enable-fips and got fips.so
>
> I'd like to test it locally, as non-root, but not install it in the
> system area. Are there instructions for this?
>
> I want to test the EVP API, not TLS or the command line.
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