OK. Misunderstood the earlier answer.

Charles

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From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org
[mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Dave Thompson
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:26 AM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: RE: Building an "exportable" OpenSSL application

> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Charles Mills
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 October, 2012 09:47
<snip>
[Using ShiningLight Windows build]
> > If you link with lib/VC/* (or lib/MinGW/*) you get implicit dynamic 
> > linking. If you link with
> > lib/VC/static/* you get static linking.
> 
> Thanks. Did not exactly understand that point. I am in fact using 
> lib/VC/*.
> I may change that to MinGW so that the intention is more obvious.
> 
I wouldn't advise that. The (two) VC directories are built for VC++ and the
MinGW directory is built for MinGW. MinGW (unlike Cygwin) tries to be mostly
pretty much compatible with VC++ but I wouldn't rely on it being totally so.
Better to use as designed.

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