Build fails on Windows: openssl-sys unable to compile OpenSSL from source

[by-german]

Description:

When attempting to build the application for production using cargo tauri build on Windows, the process fails while compiling the openssl-sys dependency. The error occurs during the OpenSSL configuration step, where perl reports a failure due to missing modules, resulting in exit code 2.

Steps to Reproduce:

• Run cargo tauri build on a Windows environment.
• Observe the build failing during the openssl-sys compilation phase.

Error Logs:

warning: openssl-sys@0.9.111: configuring OpenSSL build: 'perl' reported failure with exit code: 2
warning: openssl-sys@0.9.111: openssl-src: failed to build OpenSSL from source
error: failed to run custom build command for `openssl-sys v0.9.111`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `...\target\release\build\openssl-sys-...\build-script-main` (exit code: 1)
  --- stdout
  ...
  running "perl" "./Configure" "--prefix=..." "VC-WIN64A"
  cargo:warning=configuring OpenSSL build: 'perl' reported failure with exit code: 2
  cargo:warning=openssl-src: failed to build OpenSSL from source

  --- stderr
  Can't locate Locale/Maketext/Simple.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Locale::Maketext::Simple module)
  ...
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./Configure line 23.

  Error configuring OpenSSL build:
      'perl' reported failure with exit code: 2

Environment:

• OS: Windows 11
• Command: cargo tauri build

Workaround / Solution:

I was able to resolve this issue by manually installing a complete Perl distribution (Strawberry Perl) and ensuring it was added to the system's PATH. After restarting the terminal and cleaning the cache (cargo clean), the build completed successfully.

[CodeMarco05]

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