python-purple fails with "CRITICAL **: purple_ssl_connect_with_ssl_cn: assertion 'purple_ssl_is_supported()'"

Question

I'm using python-purple to build own chat application with lipburple. When I use Facebook or Hangouts plugin, which require SSL connection, I get the error:

** (process:6574): CRITICAL **: purple_ssl_connect_with_ssl_cn: assertion 'purple_ssl_is_supported()' failed

The same is with node-purple bindings for libpurple.

libpurple is installed with

sudo apt-get install pidgin-dev

finch works fine - connects to all SSL services as it should do, but when I start nullclient.py with Facebook acount, I get the error shown above.

Answer 1

The answer is:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpurple.sopython nullclient.py