[PYTHON-CRYPTO] win32 no OPENSSL_Applink fatal error

[Arno Bakker]

> 
> First, has *anybody* tested M2Crypto0.16beta3 against  
> Windows?  ...using VS 7.1?  ...without compiling Python 2.4 from  
> scratch with the applink.c include.
>

I just did, but it gives the expected no OPENSSL_Applink error ;-(

> From my knothole, asking users to recompile Python just so they can  
> use OpenSSL/M2Crypto is not right.  Or am I out in left field?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Just a guess, but I assume this problem holds for the Python SSL module as
well. So I'm hoping Guido will release a new Python 2.4 with applink.c to
support OpenSSL >= 0.9.8. Any chance of that?

I'm not sufficiently fluent in the VC/SWIG business to see how to fit applink.c
in M2Crypto instead, so can't propose a better solution than recompiling
python/py2exe.

Regards,
	Arno