On Mon, Jul 21, 2003, Andrew Marlow wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> I am using openssl-0.9.7b on Windoze with the Visual Studio v6 compiler
> and have found a strange problem. Maybe someone has some idea what is
> going wrong. It looks like my program gets some sort of corruption on
> returning from SSL_write coz VS says that a C++ exception has been thrown.
> Clearly this is impossible so I figure some sort of corruption has
> occurred. The thing I am doing that is probably different to most users of
> openSSL is that I am using on-the-fly ZLIB compression. If I turn off the
> compression then the problem disappears.
> 
> Has anyone else tried using ZLIB compression with openSSL? I think there
> may be some strange sort of interaction between the two dynamic libraries
> on Windoze. I get no problem on Solaris.
> 

Only thing I can immediately think of is that ZLIB might not be compiled to
use the same multithreaded DLL runtime library. The infamous /MD issue.

Steve.
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