On 2009.05.05 at 09:27:30 +0400, Andrey Koltsov wrote:

> As I understand, GOST engine works on Windows with mingw support only.
> Is it planned to make it to compile with VC++ also?
> If no, is it because technical problems or some legal issues?

There should be no techincal problems. Code is portable enough.
Just someone have to invest some
time into fixing makefiles and other project files used for MSVC build.

Mingw uses traditional Unix build system, so there was no special effort
needed to build windows version with it.

I have no intention to spend time on it, because I hate to use Windows.
I build OpenSSL for Windows using Linux-hosted cross-compiler. 

Resulting DLLs work fine with MSVC. I've build at least Apache and
PostgreSQL using MSVC with mingw-compiled OpenSSL DLLs.
(only thing you need is to produce correct import libraries using MSVC
LIB.EXE tool).

Of course, I can change my mind if someone would give me good reasons
why MSVC-compiled OpenSSL dlls are better than Mingw32-compiled.



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