Hello All,

just a little update.

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 01:44:43PM +0100, Arrigo Marchiori wrote:

> Hello Matthias, All,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:26:37AM +0100, Matthias Seidel wrote:
> 
> > Hi Arrigo,
> > 
> > Am 17.11.21 um 08:16 schrieb Arrigo Marchiori:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I pushed a new branch "serf", that contains the OpenSSL upgrade
> > > commits (I reverted the reverts ;-) plus a tentative upgrade of the
> > > serf library to 1.3.9.
> > >
> > > A small patch is included to allow building with Python3-based SCons.
> > >
> > > The oox module also needed minor patching because it uses some OpenSSL
> > > functions that were refactored since OpenSSL 1.1.0.
> > >
> > > I tested it under Linux with Peter's Docker image (adding SCons). It
> > > builds and runs, but I am not sure how to verify if the SSL related
> > > problems are solved.
> > >
> > > I could not yet test if it builds under Windows and Mac. Any help
> > > would be appreciated. Please note that the "serf" branch derives from
> > > trunk.
> > 
> > I cannot get it to build on Windows.
> > 
> > The build just stops at a certain point. No error messages.
> 
> I had not tested it under Windows, when I commited it. Sorry.
> 
> The build stops because the existing patch to OpenSSL does not apply.
> 
> If we disable it, we face another challenge: OpenSSL does not build
> with Cygwin's Perl!
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/9048
> 
> I will investigate if we need Strawberry Perl as suggested in the
> above link. It's sure this is getting more complex than expected.

I could patch the configure scripts to use Windows and Cygwin paths as
necessary. Now the compilation is failing because of missing symbols,
at link time.

As soon as I have something almost usable, I will commit it.

Best regards,
-- 
Arrigo

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