[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Python, Windows, OpenSSL and applink.c

[Larry Bugbee]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:00 PM, PYTHON-CRYPTO automatic digest system  
wrote:

> The 2.4.4 Windows Binary from www.python.org (.msi) doesn't appear  
> to have
> this problem anymore (M2Crypto 0.17), so Guido may be reading this ;o)

Hope springs eternal so I downloaded a fresh copy of  
python-2.4.4.msi.  ...and got the same OPENSSL_Applink error, again.   
Ugh.  Admittedly I used mingw32 (gcc) to compile M2Crypto and that  
may be the problem.  ...which seems odd since mingw32 works nicely  
for a fair number of other extensions.  Is anybody in a position to  
list what build combinations work and which don't?  (I'm not  
equipped; Windows is not my playground.)

I want to distribute Python-OpenSSL apps without asking my users to  
recompile Python.  (They won't have a compiler, nor will they know  
how to use it even if they did.)  A while back we didn't have this  
problem.  ...not until OpenSSL made the change.  Was their decision  
really the right one?  Assuming there are good reasons, is there yet  
another solution that could satisfy both camps?

Thanks,

Larry