app-emulation/virtualbox 7.1.4 fails to build

[GoldsrcSource]

/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-7.1.4/work/VirtualBox-7.1.4/src/VBox/Runtime/common/crypto/digest-builtin.cpp:1050:5: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘EVP_MD_CTX’ {aka ‘evp_md_ctx_st’}
 1050 |     sizeof(EVP_MD_CTX),
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

build.log

[orbea]

It seems at one point virtualbox did support libressl, but since then the support has heavily bitrotted so that there are many places where the existing LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER checks are no longer required and even problematic like the error you pasted as well other places that have no proper compatible code paths.

I'm not saying this can't be fixed, but its not trivial.

[GoldsrcSource]

feel free to close this issue then...

[orbea]

I would prefer to leave it open and hope it can be solved in the future.