[openssl-dev] Lib names on Windows changed in OpenSSL 1.1.0

[Richard Levitte]

In message <7ff7678e-3c4c-6343-3a5b-b2aa0caf7ba5 at yahoo.com> on Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:14:22 -0400, Ray Satiro <raysatiro at yahoo.com> said:

raysatiro> I am part of a project that has several build systems, and two in
raysatiro> particular are not dynamically generated, a makefile and a number of
raysatiro> Visual Studio project files, all of which link to ssleay32.lib and
raysatiro> libeay32.lib for OpenSSL. I've noticed in 1.1.0 the names were changed
raysatiro> to libssl.lib and libcrypto.lib. We would like for our project files
raysatiro> to be compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.0 and earlier versions, so that
raysatiro> someone can just open a project file and it will link to whatever
raysatiro> version of OpenSSL they're using. I am wondering if anyone else has
raysatiro> brought this up (searching I couldn't find anything), whether you have
raysatiro> considered for compatibility copying the libs to the old names, or if
raysatiro> you have any ideas for me. The project is cURL,
raysatiro> https://github.com/curl/curl. Thanks

I do recall discussing this quite a bit, back when the unified build
system was introduced, which was at the beginning of this year.  I
cannot currently recall exactly where the discussions were taking
place.  Some were on github, some were internal within the team.

As for your project file, you're talking about the stuff in winbuild/,
right?  I had a look here: https://github.com/curl/curl/tree/master/winbuild
So I'm wondering, couldn't you have something among the action lines
in https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/winbuild/Makefile.vc,
something like this?

	SET LIBCRYPTO_NAME=libcrypto
	SET LIBSSL_NAME=libssl
	IF EXIST libeay32.lib SET LIBCRYPTO_NAME=libeay32
	IF EXIST ssleay32.lib SET LIBSSL_NAME=ssleay32

And then make sure to use $(LIBCRYPTO_NAME) and $(LIBSSL_NAME) in
MakefileBuild.vc?

Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
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