Hi Arrigo,

Am 21.11.21 um 21:29 schrieb Arrigo Marchiori:
> 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.

Sounds great!

Regards,

   Matthias

>
> Best regards,

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