Ángel González <keis...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 27/04/12 22:16, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >> Win-32 XP Pro SP3 >> > > A few hours ago I downloaded cURL, unpacked its zip, and moved the exe > > and necessary DLLs to the folder where I keep CLI programs. That is:
>From where have you doenloaded them? a) For curl, I looked at the list of packages specified at: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html and chose the one described as: "Win32 2000/XP 7.25.0 binary SSL SSH Gunter Knauf 1.52 MB" b) for wget, the binaries & dependencies zips described at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm >It depends on what you want. If you want the most stability, sure, keep >the original version. If you want the latest fixes, use the latest >version. And how do I tell what that is, when one set have no version numbers? > libeay32.dll and libssl32.dll are providing openssl. It's security > sensitive (eg. suppose there was a vulnerability in https decoding leading > to code execution) so I'd always use the latest version. In this case, > both programs would probably work with both openssl versions (it's as > simple as trying with each combination and downloading from a https page), > but if one doesn't, I'd download a newer version of that. The sizes of the two versions of the two libs are significantly different, with the no-version-number ones being about 50% bigger than the versioned ones. I would have thought that successive releases of these pretty standards libs (I've seen them embedded in other apps) would be of simialr sizes. I wondered if one pair might have been compiled differently, if that makes sense. -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
