From: Mikolaj Kucharski Subject: Re: new: net/parla & net/deltachat-rpc-server: DeltaChat instant messaging To: Chris Billington Cc: ports@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:51:54 +0000 Hi Chris. Building deltachat-rpc-server failed for me with: = note: ld.lld: error: unable to find library -lsqlcipher cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) error: could not compile `deltachat-repl` (bin "deltachat-repl") due to 1 previous error Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: `/usr/local/bin/rustc --crate-name deltachat_repl --edition=2021 deltachat-repl/src/main.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts,future-incompat --diagnostic-width=237 --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=2 -C embed-bitcode=no -C codegen-units=4 --cfg 'feature="default"' --cfg 'feature="vendored"' --check-cfg 'cfg(docsrs,test)' --check-cfg 'cfg(feature, values("default", "vendored"))' -C metadata=a7ce8b5dd431cbdd -C extra-filename=-7a1fb4f104911d23 --out-dir /usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps -C strip=symbols -L dependency=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps --extern anyhow=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/libanyhow-6719500b32f20a9a.rlib --extern deltachat=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/libdeltachat-56378767dfbf553f.rlib --extern dirs=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/libdirs-fe167b4d85c0c9d5.rlib --extern log=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/liblog-30f56e88ba440081.rlib --extern nu_ansi_term=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/libnu_ansi_term-c39997b3bf382443.rlib --extern qr2term=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/libqr2term-d0730503a731d6c6.rlib --extern rusqlite=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/librusqlite-4a7c616c99ad0280.rlib --extern rustyline=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/librustyline-08f158bebe1f0378.rlib --extern tokio=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/libtokio-45f49d730fee8279.rlib --extern tracing_subscriber=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/deps/libtracing_subscriber-b3ffef85603c3a73.rlib -L native=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/build/blake3-75772802342eb6ff/out -L native=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/build/blake3-75772802342eb6ff/out -L native=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/build/ring-392c8f082afc9ccb/out -L native=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/build/aws-lc-sys-fb77c06716a37a96/out -L native=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/build/iroh-blake3-51ebdb03b6615933/out -L native=/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target/release/build/iroh-blake3-51ebdb03b6615933/out` (exit status: 1) error: failed to compile `deltachat-repl v2.53.0 (/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/deltachat-repl)`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/usr/local/obj-ports/deltachat-rpc-server-2.53.0/core-2.53.0/target`. I see that sqlcipher is commented out in the Makefile. On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 12:12:33PM +0800, Chris Billington wrote: > 1 net/parla: DeltaChat email instant messaging client in GTK4/Vala > > upstream: https://github.com/trufae/parla > > 2 net/deltachat-rpc-server: DeltaChat JSON-RPC server in Rust > (deltachat-rpc-server and deltachat-repl components only) > > upstream: https://github.com/chatmail/core > > Delta Chat (https://delta.chat) is an encrypted instant messaging system > with clients for Android/IOS/Desktop. The Desktop client uses Electron so is > not available for OpenBSD, but the JSON-RPC variant is a lighter > alternative. > > It's possible to use your own email server as a relay but upstream are > concentrating on providing 'chatmail' servers (default for registering new > 'accounts', anonymously) to reduce support burden. > > deltachat-rpc-server requires USE_NOEXECONLY to get around issues with the > awc-lc-rs TLS crate used by default by rustls. It is possible to patch to > use ring to avoid NOEXECONLY but I guess that's a heavier maintenance burden > pending awc-lc-sys upstream fixing the issue. > > Tested on amd64 7.9-current and -stable > Testers and comments welcome > -- Regards, Mikolaj