Re: OpenSSL Applink

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Dave Page wrote:
>>>> I believe we just didn't notice it until now because the older Mingw
>>>> builds use the MSVC 6.0 runtimes which just happened to be compatible
>>>> with the OpenSSL binary builds (we're now using 8.0), in addition to
>>>> which there are relatively few people using client-side certs I'd wager.
>>> So SSL works without this wart if you don't have a client cert?
>> Yep.
>
> According to the OpenSSL FAQ, the purpose of the applink is to allow
> mixing release and debug versions or multi-threaded and
> non-multithreaded versions of libraries:
>
> http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG2

Yeah - which in itself is a pita because with their 'workaround' we now
need to ensure we use a debug libpq with a debug pgadmin whereas
previously mixing 'n' matching wasn't an issue.

> How come we only bump into the crash with client certs?
>

I assume it uses fopen() or one of the other functions it does a
GetProcAddress() on in that situation.

/D