SSL_R_LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS error with openssl in eCos

Hi,
I am trying to use the eCos port of openssl from ftp://ftp.ecoscentric.com/pub/contrib/openssl-1.9.6b.epk and I am running into a very fundamental problem.

When I try to create an SSL context with

                SSL_CTX* ctx=SSL_CTX_new(SSLv3_method());

I get error SSL_R_LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS. I have developed code which works on cygwin (albeit with a more current version of openssl) and it works but I seem to fall at the 1st hurdle with the eCos version. Since the error is so basic I'm hoping it is just some extra initialisation I need to do with this older openssl library but I haven't been able to find any information on it yet. If anyone has been down this path before I'd be very grateful for any assistance,
Thanks
Tim