Magnus Hagander wrote:
Hi all,
I sent out a message about this before, but for reasons
beyond my control, I could not continue that thread.
Anyway, not only does the installer blow away libpq.dll, it
also removes all the Open SSL dlls, this is even more
troubling because LOTS of other apps depend on OpenSSL.
This morning when I got to work I downloaded beta3 and
uninstalled 8.03, then installed it (beta3) and of course did
not select PG Admin III, then did a search for libpq.dll and
it was gone, not sure if uninstalling 8.03 got rid of it or
if installing 8.1 did the deed.
I then went ahead and used a remote control app that uses
open SSL, then I get "Can't load libeay32.dll"
So in conclusion either the installer or uninstaller is
blowing away system DLLS without even asking me if I want to
keep them, this is very bad behavior.
The uninstall will indeed remove the files. The install will not touch
them.
OpenSSL libraries should never have gone in SYSTEM32, because they
contain no versioning information. If they did, they could be dealt
with in a better way in the installer.
Right now we're more or less at the mercy of Windows Instlaler, which
will remove the files that it originally installed unless someone else
registered in the MSI database that they were using it.
Your solution to this is to copy the openssl DLL files to each
applications binary directory. It may suck, but that's how you'll have
to do it :(
I actually tried that with libpq and it didn't really work because of
the libintl-2.dll and libiconv-2.dll dependencies.
I removed libpq.dll,libintl-2.dll and libiconv-2.dll from the system32
dir, I placed all three in my applications directory and when I loaded
libpq.dll it complained that it could not find
libintl-2.dll and libiconv-2.dll, I can only conclude that paths to
libintl-2.dll and libiconv-2.dll are hard coded in libpq.dll somewhere.
Is there anyway to get a libpq that does not depend on libintl-2.dll and
libiconv-2.dll? (short me spinning my wheels for hours trying to figure
out C code).
Thanks,
Tony
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