[Python-Dev] Build Notes for building trunk with Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Nov 23 19:00:01 CET 2007

Christian Heimes wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Why not include the prebuilt libraries of all external libs in SVN as well ? For one I'm still using Beta 2 of the standard edition and I'm not allowed to distribute binaries build with the Beta. With the new pre-build steps it's also very easy to build the dependencies. I don't like to add more binaries to the svn repos.

BTW: Are you including the patented algorithms in the standard OpenSSL build or excluding them ?

The patented ones are RC5, IDEA and MDC2: [snip] I'd opt for not including these algorithms, as it's just too easy for the user to overlook this license requirement. Thanks for thinking about license problems! I didn't even think about checking the licenses since I was under the impression that restricted algorithms are disabled by default. I've disabled IDEA in the makefiles and configure headers of openssl. I've also added another step to the makefile patcher in buildssl. It makes sure that the three algorithms are disabled. I believe the patent on MDC2 expired this year, though this is not an authoritative opinion.

regards Steve

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