Re: [Kicad-developers] Interesting DLL Hell with SSL
On 4 October 2013 08:55, Maciej Sumiński maciej.sumin...@cern.ch wrote: Hi Brian, In fact it looks very strange.. I am just wondering - wouldn't it be easier to link OpenSSL as a static library? It may require a rebuild in the KiCad-Winbuilder, but then you will not have to care about stuff that users keep in Windows directory. Regards, Orson Hi Orson, While static linking would be a band-aid, it seems a bit poor to have to resort to static linking, especially as the project is moving more towards shared objects for everything. Static linking will give us multiple copies of the same code which isn't great (especially if the code requires large amounts of const data like look-up tables the like), but also shared objects give us good code separation. I think we could in the future move to patching the OpenSSL vanilla source and build it as part of the KiCad build (As has now been mentioned in another thread). At that point we're in control of the library name. We could call it libeay32-kicad.dll for example and we'll remove ourselves from DLL hell. I'd prefer to head down this route in the future. It's right that if we compile something, we get to name it. Best Regards, Brian. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Kicad-developers] Interesting DLL Hell with SSL
Hi Brian, In fact it looks very strange.. I am just wondering - wouldn't it be easier to link OpenSSL as a static library? It may require a rebuild in the KiCad-Winbuilder, but then you will not have to care about stuff that users keep in Windows directory. Regards, Orson On 10/04/2013 12:28 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: This project: http://tibcoadmin.com/tibco/activematrix-businessworks/problem-with-libeay32-dll-and-ssleay32-dll/ has seen this behaviour too, and also concludes that the PATH is ignored in the search for the library. Their solution is to copy their DLL and overwrite the one in SysWOW64! lol. What a mess. Best Regards, Brian. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Kicad-developers] Interesting DLL Hell with SSL
This project: http://tibcoadmin.com/tibco/activematrix-businessworks/problem-with-libeay32-dll-and-ssleay32-dll/ has seen this behaviour too, and also concludes that the PATH is ignored in the search for the library. Their solution is to copy their DLL and overwrite the one in SysWOW64! lol. What a mess. Best Regards, Brian. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
