> [[email protected] - Tue Jul 13 20:13:30 2010]:
> 
> hi,
> 
> Testing OpenSSL 1.0.0a on MacOSX 10.6, I see that it defaults to
>    loadable modules using using the .dylib extension. It's my
>    understanding this is incorrect, as loadable modules on MacOSX are
>    called either .so (for compability) or .bundle (for "native"
>    modules). Dynamically linked libraries though are called .dylib,
>    but this is not the case for engines.
> 
> The OpenSSL build system actually builds and installs the engines as
>    .so, but the default loader tries to use .dylib and thus fails to
>    load the engine. Diff to fix this issue can be found below and with
>    this fix applied, OpenSSL correctly finds and loads the engine.
> 

Well the change was made originally because OpenSSL didn't correctly
load the zlib library dynamically. See this thread:

http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=124767425101695&w=2

Has the name of the zlib shared library changed now?

Steve.
-- 
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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