--- /dev/null
+--- a/src/ssl.c
++++ b/src/ssl.c
+@@ -401,17 +401,21 @@ static int meth_want(lua_State *L)
+ */
+ static int meth_compression(lua_State *L)
+ {
++#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_COMP
+ const COMP_METHOD *comp;
++#endif
+ p_ssl ssl = (p_ssl)luaL_checkudata(L, 1, "SSL:Connection");
+ if (ssl->state != LSEC_STATE_CONNECTED) {
+ lua_pushnil(L);
+ lua_pushstring(L, "closed");
+ return 2;
+ }
++#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_COMP
+ comp = SSL_get_current_compression(ssl->ssl);
+ if (comp)
+ lua_pushstring(L, SSL_COMP_get_name(comp));
+ else
++#endif
+ lua_pushnil(L);
+ return 1;
+ }