I got this working fine... yikes.

Problem is openSSL.

Oddly, did not think it needed it on Linux but I was wrong.

I poked around cconnect.so and found out, it does!

And, Ubuntu comes with 3.x.x version.  So of course it was going to fail.

So after downloading, compiling, and updating my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to also include the 1.0.2u binaries, it worked!