Hi All, I am facing a problem in an application (a dll) created in MSVC which links against static libeay32.lib and ssleay32.lib. Problem is that when I use this application and openssl function is called, app crashes. But when I link this application against the dlls of openssl (using the .libs which are created when we compile openssl with ntdll.mak) it works fine. What I have noticed is that when I link my application into the static openssl libraries its size is much smaller than the size of the libs. Linker pulls only that code form openssl libs which it thinks is being used in the application (this perhaps is called dead code striping). But I think there are certain methods which are used by the application (perhaps indirectly) which linker does not include in the resulting app, this results in a crash when app is executed. Or there is some other reason?
In GCC on MacOSX we have a linker option "-all_load" which includes all the code of a static library in the application. And hence the size of the app is greater than the size of the libs put together. Is my above understanding correct, or something else is wrong? Has anyone else run into this problem? How can I use openssl static libraries in an app developed in MSVC or CodeWarrior so that I do not need to have openssl dlls on the machine? Great thanks in advance, Regards, --- Qadeer Baig ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
