[Python-Dev] Windows package for new SSL package? (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Thu Sep 13 05:03:50 CEST 2007

> * findssl() is along way from working on Windows. Python itself uses magic > to locate an SSL directory in the main Python directory's parent. On my > system, this is c:\src\openssl-0.9.7e, but obviously that could be almost > anywhere, and with almost any name. See PCBuild\buildssl.py and > PCBuild_ssl.mak for the gory details. I'm not sure how you would like to > approach this (insist on an environment variable for the top-level SSL dir > name?)

Can't we look in the registry for this? We have a working Python; perhaps we can just use a Windows-specific registry lookup to find OpenSSL? (I'm just blue-skying here; I have no clue how things work on Windows.)

Not really. Python itself, when building _ssl, doesn't look for a binary install of openssl, but instead a source directory and a working perl interpreter so an openssl can be built suitable for linking with Python. This source directory is just downloaded and unzipped - no registration takes place, and any binaries that may be built are ignored (we just want the .h and .lib files)

It might be possible to try and use build_ssl.py to locate the openssl directory, but this will still require that someone building it has Python built from source - I'm fairly sure that someone installing a Python binary will not have build_ssl.py, nor are they likely to have a suitable openssl directory or installation just "hanging around" either.

Mark

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