Unable to establish a connection to query-engine-node-api library. It seems there is a problem with your OpenSSL installation!

Bug description

Error: Get Config: Unable to establish a connection to query-engine-node-api library. It seems there is a problem with your OpenSSL installation!
Details: Unable to require(`/home/florian/zac-management/node_modules/.pnpm/prisma@4.0.0/node_modules/prisma/libquery_engine-debian-openssl-1.1.x.so.node`)
 libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How to reproduce

1. run next dev and prisma generate will cause the issue

Environment & setup

• OS: Ubuntu (WSL2)
• Database: MySQL (Planetscale)
• Node.js version: 16.15

Prisma Version

4.0.0

[zackdotcomputer]

For @victorkurauchi and others getting this issue on Alpine Linux (especially in Docker), this comment in another issue pointed out that the latest Alpine strips out legacy OpenSSL APIs. This caused this issue to start occurring for me recently. I was able to fix it without downgrading or cross-grading to bullseye or buster by adding this line to my dockerfile before the npm install command:

RUN apk add --update --no-cache openssl1.1-compat

[smithbm2316]

If any of you still having this issue are using Homebrew on your machine, I found out through some very annoying debugging that apparently Homebrew had a higher precedence on my $PATH, and since I had installed other programs with it that depended on the OpenSSL 1.1 binary, my system was defaulting to that as the binary to use for OpenSSL instead of the default installed binary by Ubuntu (in my case Pop OS, a derivative of Ubuntu) in /usr/bin/openssl. Try running openssl version and if you get back OpenSSL 1.1.1p 21 Jun 2022 or something with 1.x in it, that may be your issue. By making sure that /usr/bin had precedence in my $PATH over my Homebrew install, my system used the proper binaries installed by apt (openssl, libssl-dev, and libc6). Very niche issue, but hope this might help save someone else 1+ hours of digging 😅. All of this was total user error as the way I had added Homebrew to my $PATH was not what I intended, so I mistakenly had given it higher precedence over all my default /usr system folders.

TLDR check and see if you have any other versions of OpenSSL installed on your system as a peer-dependency via something like Homebrew or another package manager, and make sure that version of OpenSSL is on version 3 or is not taking precedence over your system package manager’s version of OpenSSL