From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-11-17T01:22:20+09:00
Subject: Re: OpenSSL with One-click installer?

Austin Ziegler wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:18:17 +0900, Robert Feldt
> <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My students are at it again:
> >
> > Seems that OpenSSL is not included with the one-click Windows
> > installer. Maybe it should be? Or if we could make prebuilt
> > binaries for it that can be installed with the gem command now
> > included in the one-click installer. Anyway it's now a bit
> > frustrating that it is built by default on linux and with cygwin
> > (if openssl available) but is not included with the one-click
> > installer.
> >
> > I can't seem to find a place where a prebuilt extension for
> > openssl on windows is available; I seem to remember that it was
> > avilable on http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/ but
> > can't find it anymore. Any links or should I recommend them to
> > compile it themselves via Mingw?
>
> I think that I opened this as a bug on the RubyForge project for the
> installer, because it's affecting me with a bit of GMail interaction I
> want to do.

I think having out-of-the-box ssl support is important. I bumped your bug
report to highest priority, and I'll try to get this included soon. I am, as
usual, severely over-committed so if there are any gotchas from those who
have installed OpenSSL on windows please pass them along.

Curt