"Cannot open input file 'libcrypto.lib'" while installing libtorrent C++ library

Question

I am attempting to install the libtorrent C++ library (cloned from GitHub repository) on Windows 11 with OpenSSL 1.1.1i installed and Visual Studio 2022.

Invoking b2 in my libtorrent source folder is returning the error LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libcrypto.lib'.

The file libcrypto.lib definitely exists in C:\Users\Me\openssl and C:\Users\Me\openssl is in my PATH. Installation was running fine until this point.

My steps were:

$ set LIB="C:\Users\Me\openssl";%LIB%
$ set INCLUDE="C:\Users\Me\openssl\include";%INCLUDE%
$ set BOOST_ROOT=c:\boost_1_80_0
$ set BOOST_BUILD_PATH=%BOOST_ROOT%\tools\build
$ cd "C:\Users\Me\libtorrent"
$ b2

The last step returns:

...updating 3 targets... msvc.link.dll bin\msvc-14.3\debug\cxxstd-14-iso\threading-multi\torrent-rasterbar.dll LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libcrypto.lib'

call "bin\standalone\msvc\msvc-14.3\msvc-setup.bat" >nul link /NOLOGO /INCREMENTAL:NO @"bin\msvc-14.3\debug\cxxstd-14-iso\threading-multi\torrent-rasterbar.dll.rsp" ...failed msvc.link.dll bin\msvc-14.3\debug\cxxstd-14-iso\threading-multi\torrent-rasterbar.dll bin\msvc-14.3\debug\cxxstd-14-iso\threading-multi\torrent.lib bin\msvc-14.3\debug\cxxstd-14-iso\threading-multi\torrent-rasterbar.pdb... ...removing bin\msvc-14.3\debug\cxxstd-14-iso\threading-multi\torrent-rasterbar.pdb ...failed updating 3 targets...

Edit: Fixed a typo

Answer 1

Solved by copying libcrypto.lib to LIB path specified in user-config.jam.