From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T03:29:07+09:00
Subject: Re: OpenSSL and 1-click installer (Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.6.0)

James Britt wrote:
>
> Jamis Buck wrote:
>
> > James Britt wrote:
> >>
> >> Has anyone gotten Net:SSH working with the 1-click version?
> >
> >
> > Well, I have, but only because I compiled the Ruby/OpenSSL module
> > myself. It relies on version 8 of the msvcrt dll, which you may or may
> > not have installed, but if you'd like I can send along (or post) the
> > binary version I created.
>
> Thank you; I may take you up on the offer of the binary.  I have
> numerous copies of msvcrt.dll, though the latest seems to be version
> 6.something.  Where does one get version 8?
>
> I'd be most interested in understanding how to reproduce this myself, in
> part because I know of people who are interested in using Ruby for
> corporate admin tools, but problems with SSL on Windows hold them back.
>
> I think the ideal situation would be to have the required DLL included
> in the 1-click installer; maybe the next best thing is a set of clear
> instructions on creating the DLL.  And the a pre-compiled binary as a
> fall back.

I'm planning to incloude OpenSSL in the next time I post a release of the
One-Click Installer. I haven't yet tried to build/integrate OpenSLL, so I
don't know if I'll run into any problems. But when I asked about this on
ruby-talk, the responses seem to indicate I should not have any problems.

Curt