symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: <from SSL library> (in a native dependency) crashes the electron process

[Delfshkrimm]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use the boilerplate with the node module "ursa" (version 0.9.4) which is a native module that needs compilation for my plateform.
For the record, I'm using node 8.11.4 and npm 5.6.0.
So in a vanilla electron-react-boilerplate project, I've included ursa in the ./app/package.json and installed it with npm i in the app/ folder or just run yarn in root folder for it to compile the native module. The compilation works like a charm, no issue here.
Problem is that when I import ursa from 'ursa' in the ./app/index.js and launch the project with yarn dev in root folder, I get the following error in the console, and the electron process crashes

/home/mehdi/Documents/git/proto/node_modules/electron/dist/electron --type=renderer --no-sandbox --service-pipe-token=E7EFA4A047D4F5ACD154E0AA352B6343 --lang=fr --app-path=/home/mehdi/Documents/git/proto/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar --node-integration=true --webview-tag=true --no-sandbox --context-id=2 --enable-pinch --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --content-image-texture-target=0,0,3553;0,1,3553;0,2,3553;0,3,3553;0,4,3553;0,5,3553;0,6,3553;0,7,3553;0,8,3553;0,9,3553;0,10,3553;0,11,3553;0,12,3553;0,13,3553;0,14,3553;0,15,3553;0,16,3553;0,17,3553;1,0,3553;1,1,3553;1,2,3553;1,3,3553;1,4,3553;1,5,3553;1,6,3553;1,7,3553;1,8,3553;1,9,3553;1,10,3553;1,11,3553;1,12,3553;1,13,3553;1,14,3553;1,15,3553;1,16,3553;1,17,3553;2,0,3553;2,1,3553;2,2,3553;2,3,3553;2,4,3553;2,5,3553;2,6,3553;2,7,3553;2,8,3553;2,9,3553;2,10,3553;2,11,3553;2,12,3553;2,13,3553;2,14,3553;2,15,3553;2,16,3553;2,17,3553;3,0,3553;3,1,3553;3,2,3553;3,3,3553;3,4,3553;3,5,3553;3,6,3553;3,7,3553;3,8,3553;3,9,3553;3,10,3553;3,11,3553;3,12,3553;3,13,3553;3,14,3553;3,15,3553;3,16,3553;3,17,3553;4,0,3553;4,1,3553;4,2,3553;4,3,3553;4,4,3553;4,5,3553;4,6,3553;4,7,3553;4,8,3553;4,9,3553;4,10,3553;4,11,3553;4,12,3553;4,13,3553;4,14,3553;4,15,3553;4,16,3553;4,17,3553 --disable-accelerated-video-decode --enable-gpu-async-worker-context --service-request-channel-token=E7EFA4A047D4F5ACD154E0AA352B6343 --renderer-client-id=8 --shared-files=v8_natives_data:100,v8_snapshot_data:101: symbol lookup error: /home/mehdi/Documents/git/proto/app/node_modules/ursa/build/Release/ursaNative.node: undefined symbol: BIO_new_mem_buf

As I read it somewhere, BIO_new_mem_buf seems to be a function from libssl > v0.9 and I have all the requirements installed on my machine (I've tried it with libssl-dev which is v1.1.0f-3+deb9u2 and libssl1.0-dev, doesn't change anything).
On github I've found many related issues to using a native module that fails to link to openssl functions on the local plateform like this fellow here but none of the proposed solutions seem to work for me.

I get the feeling this is related to my plateform and how the links to the ssl libraries are failing when running with the electron process in the boilerplate.
For info, I've also tried running the ursa module in a vanilla electron project (without the boilerplate and webpack) and it works fine...

Any help or just testing on your own plateform would be really appreciated in order to see if this is the default faulty behavior we get using the boilerplate (and help us locate what's going wrong and where)!
Thanks a lot

PS: same issue if I run the project in node 10.10.0 and npm 6.4.1
PPS: I'm using debian 9, a colleague's got the same issue running macOS 10, and another one using also debian 9

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