I'll admit I don't know anything about Mingw32. And I know just a little bit about Windows. In Windows, there's the concept of import libraries, and if I understand the Mingw32 building procedures properly, libeay32.a and libssl32.a are import libraries that map to libeay32.dll and libssl32.dll
Note that this *pure* guesswork, but might help to explain that particular sentence in INSTALL.W32. Admitadly, it could be written better. Do you have a suggestion? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Nov 14 09:33:08 2002]: > I am compiling OpenSSL on Windows 2000. I read "INSTALL.W32" that came with > the source. I had a successful compile using Mingw32. Further down in > "INSTALL.W32" I see the following note... > > "libcrypto.a and libssl.a are the static libraries. To use the DLLs, > link with libeay32.a and libssl32.a instead". > > What does this mean in english? Don't I just put libeay32.dll and > libssl32.dll in the windows system directory (C:\WINNT\system32)? Or is > there more to it than that? -- Richard Levitte ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
