liblegacy.a does not work unless compiled with -static

Richard Levitte levitte at openssl.org
Sat May 2 07:30:45 UTC 2020


On Fri, 01 May 2020 19:22:13 +0200,
Salz, Rich via openssl-users wrote:
> 
> Hm, so DSO support is a requirement for legacy crypto now?  That
> probably needs to be made explicit, and see if the project gets
> pushback.

No.  When DSO support is turned off, the legacy provider code becomes
part of libcrypto, in an inaccessible state (in other words, you still
have to "load" it).

Cheers,
Richard

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