Has anyone else had any problems installing Net:SSLeay on a psa 7.5 machine?

The make started out with this, which probably isn't too good to begin with:

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Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6j or 0.9.7b or newer...
openssl-0.9.6i/0.9.7a and earlier versions have security flaws or bugs,
see advisories at www.openssl.org, upgrading to openssl-0.9.6j
or openssl-0.9.7b is recommended.
You have OpenSSL-0.9.7a installed in /usr
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So first, is it possible to easily upgrade OpenSSL?

The make itself has a ton of errors that look like this:

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SSLeay.c:1966: `SSL_CTX' undeclared (first use in this function)
SSLeay.c:1966: `ctx' undeclared (first use in this function)
SSLeay.c:1966: parse error before ')' token
SSLeay.c: In function `XS_Net__SSLeay_get_error':
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Not sure how to fix this but I do need to be able to install Net::SSLeay on this system at some point.