Issue
I was trying to install pycurl in a virtualenv using pip and I got this error
ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from compile-time ssl backend (none/other)
I read some documentation saying that "To fix this, you need to tell setup.py what SSL backend is used" (source) although I am not sure how to do this since I installed pycurl using pip.
How can I specify the SSL backend when installing pycurl with pip?
Thanks
Solution
for most people
After reading their INSTALLATION file, I was able to solve my problem by setting an environment variable and did a reinstall
# remove existing `pycurl` installation
pip uninstall pycurl
# export variable with your link-time ssl backend (which is openssl above)
export PYCURL_SSL_LIBRARY=openssl
# then, re-install `pycurl` with **no cache**
pip install pycurl --no-cache-dir
There could be other solution out there but this works perfectly for me on a virtualenv and pip installation.
Some people have a different error message complaining about nss instead of openssl
ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (nss)
(the key part is nss) so you have to do something different for this error message:
pip uninstall pycurl
pip install --no-cache-dir --compile --compile-options="--with-nss" pycurl
Answered By - helloworld2013