Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
I talked to my local Guru on windows / visual studio, but here is a link even better: http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/vcredists_x86.asp the exe for redistributing MSVCRT80.dll is missing from the visual studio express version. but MS has it for download, so the workaround on that page isn't nece

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-16 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: Douglas, you experimented with the ID Ally CSP and got it working with opensc, right? If so, could you tell me: a) the CSP documentation states that not only the CSP but also all dll's used by the CSP need to be signed by microsoft. I think that is wrong, and

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: Douglas E. Engert wrote: P.S. Here is a nice blog about the dll hell problem, VC++8.0 and WinSxS http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/martynl/archive/2005/10/13/480880.aspx It also meantions Inno and NSIS instal packages, that don't know how to handle the assemblies. th

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: How important is support for windows before XP? If we would use VC8 with SxS directories for DLLs and all those goodies, we would depend on windows installer 3.1 which to my knowledge is only for Win XP SP2, or would at least require installing it on other plattform

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:35:52PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > sorry, I'm still quite confused: manifests, SxS directory, > windows installer 3.1 requirement, new CRT lib, etc. I don't like any of those cherries very much, but I do like least common denominator. I may just be too Windows

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Douglas E. Engert wrote: P.S. Here is a nice blog about the dll hell problem, VC++8.0 and WinSxS http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/martynl/archive/2005/10/13/480880.aspx It also meantions Inno and NSIS instal packages, that don't know how to handle the assemblies. thanks, that link was very informat

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
How important is support for windows before XP? If we would use VC8 with SxS directories for DLLs and all those goodies, we would depend on windows installer 3.1 which to my knowledge is only for Win XP SP2, or would at least require installing it on other plattforms. Also SxS directories only w

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Douglas E. Engert
P.S. Here is a nice blog about the dll hell problem, VC++8.0 and WinSxS http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/martynl/archive/2005/10/13/480880.aspx It also meantions Inno and NSIS instal packages, that don't know how to handle the assemblies. -- Douglas E. Engert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Argonne Nat

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Wolfgang Glas wrote: Am Montag, 14. August 2006 16:28 schrieb Douglas E. Engert: Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: Wolfgang Glas wrote: 1) Are there any good reasons to install the opensc dlls twice? (SCB install directory and C:\WINDOWS\System32) Installing then only in the SCB install direct

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-15 Thread Martin Paljak
This is not the right way. You can learn a lot about the re- distribution phase of the mentioned dll from msdn forums and just by using google. Just 'putting it somewhere' is supposed to cause more problems than it solves. On 14.08.2006, at 23:27, Wolfgang Glas wrote: My experience showed

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Glas
Am Montag, 14. August 2006 16:28 schrieb Douglas E. Engert: > Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > Wolfgang Glas wrote: > >> 1) Are there any good reasons to install the opensc dlls twice? (SCB > >> install directory and C:\WINDOWS\System32) Installing then only in the > >> SCB install directory should

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-14 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: Wolfgang Glas wrote: 1) Are there any good reasons to install the opensc dlls twice? (SCB install directory and C:\WINDOWS\System32) Installing then only in the SCB install directory should be IMHO sufficient, because all dlls on which the opensc libs depeand a

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
I don't know any more what the issues exactly were, but I gave mingw a try and didn't get very far. I guess we would need native windows header files or something like that, and maybe a lot more from vs/vc, so there would be no legal advantage in using mingw. currently scb contains openssl, open

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Wolfgang Glas wrote: 1) Are there any good reasons to install the opensc dlls twice? (SCB install directory and C:\WINDOWS\System32) Installing then only in the SCB install directory should be IMHO sufficient, because all dlls on which the opensc libs depeand are installed alongside in the sa

Re: [opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:35:49AM +0200, Wolfgang Glas wrote: > Therefore, it would be more feasible to use either mingw (is this > fully supported by now?) I also think this is a good idea. I would have made some experiments but haven't found the time.. Please feel free to try it out. If it wo

[opensc-devel] DLL installation in SCB.

2006-08-12 Thread Wolfgang Glas
Hi, I installed SCB-0.7 from the homepage and updated the contained opensc library to the current SVN by compiling opensc on my own using VC++ 8. Everything went fine, until I tried to use opensc-pkcs11.dll from within JAVA, which did not work. After several hours banging my head against a