> i am wondering how to use httrack for simply
> downloading a https address. When i read that one
> can use httrack for https urls and look at my
> version 3.40-2-nossl, there's this -nossl attached.

This is not a compiling issue, but httrack dynamically attempt to load the
OpenSSL library at runtime (libssl.so and libcrypto.so) Ensure that you have
this library installed (OpenSSL 0.9.7, for example)

For example, on debian,
apt-get install libssl0.9.7