Re: How to test a build of the FIPS provider

I know I can install there, but how does my C application and makefile
point to it.

E.g., the fips provider is fips.so, not libfips.so, so I cannot simply 
link with -lfips.

On 1/20/2026 3:09 AM, Igor Ustinov wrote:
> 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] <mailto: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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