[Python-3000] building _ssl on Windows

[Gregory P. Smith]

On 11/15/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
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> > Now, is it really necessary to install perl in order to compile python?
>
> Yes, if you want OpenSSL support.


Yep.  Sadly OpenSSL uses Perl to generate its asm files in one of two or
three different x86 asm syntaxes.  Why is this sad?  A good completely free
x86 assembler is available (http://nasm.sourceforge.net/) so they should
just say screw it to the other syntaxes and write their asm for nasm.  But
its an OpenSSL problem, not python.  If anyone wants to fix this, fix
OpenSSL.
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