grpc library doesn't build libboringssl.a | ext-grpc fails to build shared

[henderkes]

the extension later fails to build, it seems

[henderkes]

also has many conflicts between built openssl headers from the php build and its included libboringssl.

make: *** [Makefile:3250: third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_dup.lo] Error 1
/home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c: In function ‘ASN1_GENERALIZEDTIME_adj’:
/home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c:122:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘OPENSSL_PUT_ERROR’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  122 |     OPENSSL_PUT_ERROR(ASN1, ASN1_R_ILLEGAL_TIME_VALUE);
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c:122:23: error: ‘ASN1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  122 |     OPENSSL_PUT_ERROR(ASN1, ASN1_R_ILLEGAL_TIME_VALUE);
      |                       ^~~~
/home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c:122:23: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make: *** [Makefile:3253: third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.lo] Error 1
In file included from /home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/include/openssl/bytestring.h:18,
                 from /home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_int.c:63:
/home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/include/openssl/base.h:101:9: warning: "OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER" redefined
  101 | #define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER 0x1010107f
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /home/m/static-php-cli/buildroot/include/php/../openssl/macros.h:15,
                 from /home/m/static-php-cli/buildroot/include/php/../openssl/asn1.h:19,
                 from /home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/crypto/asn1/a_int.c:57:
/home/m/static-php-cli/buildroot/include/php/../openssl/opensslv.h:99:10: note: this is the location of the previous definition
   99 | # define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER          \
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/m/static-php-cli/source/grpc/third_party/boringssl-with-bazel/src/include/openssl/base.h:136:9: warning: "OPENSSL_EXPORT" redefined
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[crazywhalecc]

According to grpc source, seems we could build it using cmake. But I haven't tried it yet, and don't know if cmake would make it easier to control the use of the library.

[henderkes]

cmake lets us use openssl as the gRPC_SSL_PROVIDER, which is what we need to do to combat the conflicts.

I got it to work now, but boy does grpc have an insane amount of static libraries it needs to link against.