Francois PIETTE wrote:

> I had understood that you rebuild OpenSSL DLL using BCB. 

No DLL. The BCB build script that ships with OpenSSL works
fine with the command line compiler however there's no option
to build the DLL due to the lack of a tool to finally build
the DLL from the compiler output (.obj and .lib files).

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> From: "Arno Garrels" <arno.garr...@gmx.de>
> To: "ICS support mailing" <twsocket@elists.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [twsocket] ICS V7 bug ?
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> 
>> Francois PIETTE wrote:
>>>>>> I recently managed to build OpenSSL with C++ Builder, so one was
>>>>>> able link .obj files rather than the libraries, though I'm not
>>>>>> sure whether OpenSSL license allowed this for closed-source
>>>>>> applications.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That is very interesting. Maybe you could create a wiki page to
>>>>> describe the required steps and provide any required file beside
>>>>> OpenSSl source code. Each person will then decide if the license
>>>>> allows him to do it or not.
>>>> 
>>>> Building was no big problem. But it outputs over 600 .obj files and
>>>> two .lib files. They contain plenty of dependancies to other
>>>> run-time libraries. So probably a huge effort to get it working in
>>>> Delphi. I haven't tried this yet.
>>> 
>>> Altough using in in Delphi is even more interesting, I was just
>>> thinking about publishing the procedure to rebuild OpenSSL DLL with
>>> C++Builder 2007 and 2009.
>> 
>> If there was a tool to build the DLLs from the .lib files it was
>> easily possible. VS provides such a tool and the MinGW built uses
>> some third party tool to finally create the DLLs from the compiler
>> output (forgot their names).
>> 
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