> > * find_ssl() is along way from working on Windows. Python itself > uses magic > > to locate an SSL directory in the main Python directory's parent. On > my > > system, this is c:\src\openssl-0.9.7e, but obviously that could be > almost > > anywhere, and with almost any name. See PCBuild\build_ssl.py and > > PCBuild\_ssl.mak for the gory details. I'm not sure how you would > like to > > approach this (insist on an environment variable for the top-level > SSL dir > > name?) > > Can't we look in the registry for this? We have a working Python; > perhaps we can just use a Windows-specific registry lookup to find > OpenSSL? (I'm just blue-skying here; I have no clue how things work > on Windows.)
Not really. Python itself, when building _ssl, doesn't look for a binary install of openssl, but instead a source directory and a working perl interpreter so an openssl can be built suitable for linking with Python. This source directory is just downloaded and unzipped - no registration takes place, and any binaries that may be built are ignored (we just want the .h and .lib files) It might be possible to try and use build_ssl.py to locate the openssl directory, but this will still require that someone building it has Python built from source - I'm fairly sure that someone installing a Python binary will not have build_ssl.py, nor are they likely to have a suitable openssl directory or installation just "hanging around" either. Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
