You'd be best raising this with whomever produced that installer. The OpenSSL
project distributes OpenSSL in source form. Some third party built OpenSSL and
packaged it into that installer, that's who decided and controls which versions
of OS libraries it depends on.
Regards,
jjf
From: John A. Wallace [mailto:jw72...@verizon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:24 PM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Win32OpenSSL.html
Hello.
In this instance I am using 64-bit Win7 on a laptop in a home network. When I
downloaded this version of OpenSSL
http://slproweb.com/download/Win64OpenSSL_Light-1_0_1c.exe, during installation
it alerted me about not finding but needing the Visual C++ 2008
Redistributable. I was a bit surprised to see this alert because I could see
that I already had several other such Redistributables installed on my system.
These are what I currently had:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.17
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.4148
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.6161
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.17
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.6161
Apparently, this version of OpenSSL required a different one, so I went online
hunting down what I could find along these lines until coming across another
one that seemed to suffice, namely, this one:
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable - x64 9.0.21022
I was lucky, I suppose, in that I did not have to spend much time looking
around before I found one that would fit the bill and satisfy and satisfy its
requirements. However, to be honest, I am no programmer and, therefore, I am
not at all sure how many different versions of the 2008 Redistributable are
floating around. In the alert that I got during the installation there was no
mention of any specific version at all.
In general, how would a person know which of these version might be needed
without having to go through a hunt and peck approach while looking for one of
them? This is an awesome product, but it would be swell also, if possible, to
tweak the installation process with a little more information about its
dependencies under the circumstances. Or am I seeming too picky about it?
Thanks.
John
