On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:15:27AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Please, before any change is made in terms of threading, let me point
> out that Cygwin is NOT Windows, even if it runs on Windows.  Cygwin
> provides its own pthreads implementation which is always available,
> even without explicit linking against -lpthread.
> 
> So, for Cygwin, please use pthreads, not Windows threading, otherwise
> applications linked against libcrypto might be broken in subtil ways.

Of course.  But surely OpenSSL needs to be built separately (and
differently) for native Windows and Cygwin.  I.e., an OpenSSL DLL built
against the Windows CRT can't be used from a Cygwin app.
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