[Python-Dev] Python for windows. (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Nov 27 07:44:39 CET 2008

As I recall, OpenSSL, a long while ago stopped, supporting some idiosyncrasies associated with Windows I/O and opted for a "cleaner" approach, that of requiring developers to link a small file, applink.c, into the app's main. applink.c is provided by the OpenSSL folks.

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Ok, this explains what it is.

Arguably better is to have the include statement in the python source file, python.c, appropriately conditioned. ...and to provide a copy of applink.c. That way, there would be no more need to try to find or do a custom build. Everybody building for a Windows platform will have applink included and access to OpenSSL becomes a non-issue.

However, this doesn't explain why I should care about it. What is the problem that is being solved for Python? Why is access to OpenSSL an issue currently?

Regards, Martin

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