Hi there, My goal is to run Tor on small cluster of embedded mips devices. Because the platform runs on an older version of OpenSSL and libevent I have chosen to statically link them with Tor. So I went ahead to compile the components. I'm aiming at the beta version: 0.2.3.17 OpenSSL 1.0.1c has been build with: ./Configure debian-mipsel shared enable-tlsext zlib-dynamic no-ssl2 libevent-2.0.19-stable has been built with: ./configure --enable-openssl --disable-debug-mode --with-pic And of course Tor: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-zlib-dir=/home/mastag/build-mipsel/tmp/staging/mipsel-linux/lib \ --with-openssl-dir=/home/mastag/build-mipsel/tmp/staging/mipsel-linux/lib \ --with-libevent-dir=/home/mastag/build-mipsel/tmp/staging/mipsel-linux/lib \ --disable-asciidoc --enable-static-openssl --enable-static-libevent \ --host=mipsel-linux --with-libnatpmp-dir=/home/mastag/build-mipsel/tmp/staging/mipsel-linux/lib \ --with-libminiupnpc-dir=/home/mastag/build-mipsel/tmp/staging/mipsel-linux/lib \ --enable-upnp --enable-nat-pmp --enable-bufferevents \ CPPFLAGS="-I/home/mastag/openpli/build-dm800/tmp/staging/mipsel-linux/include" This produces the src/or/Tor binary which runs great on the cluster. Only it's giving me the following messages: Jun 21 23:02:12.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.3.17-beta opening new log file. Jun 21 23:02:12.000 [warn] You are running Tor as root. You don't need to, and you probably shouldn't. Jun 21 23:02:13.000 [notice] No AES engine found; using AES_* functions. Jun 21 23:02:13.000 [notice] This OpenSSL has a good implementation of counter mode; using it. Jun 21 23:02:15.000 [notice] OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012 looks like version 0.9.8m or later; I will try SSL_OP to enable renegotiation Jun 21 23:02:37.000 [notice] Reloaded microdescriptor cache. Found 4807 descriptors. Jun 21 23:02:42.000 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build circuits. Jun 21 23:02:42.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network. Jun 21 23:02:43.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 0:00 hours, with 1 circuits open. I've sent 0 kB and received 0 kB. Jun 21 23:02:43.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with first hop. Jun 21 23:02:43.000 [warn] TLS error while creating tor_tls_t object: could not load the shared library (in DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:---) Jun 21 23:02:43.000 [warn] TLS error while creating tor_tls_t object: could not load the shared library (in DSO support routines:DSO_load:---) Jun 21 23:02:47.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit. Jun 21 23:02:53.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working. Jun 21 23:02:53.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done. The warning about the AES engine is probably because OpenSSL has no engine for mips. However the following two lines bother me: [warn] TLS error while creating tor_tls_t object: could not load the shared library (in DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:---) [warn] TLS error while creating tor_tls_t object: could not load the shared library (in DSO support routines:DSO_load:---) Any way to get rid of these? I did compile OpenSSL with "enable-tlsext" so I don't understand why it warns me about it. Thanks in advance!