[python-win32] Building Python-2.7.6 for 64bit Windows

[Bharath Ramesh]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> Bharath Ramesh wrote:
>> I am not sure if I am correct in describing what is possibly
>> happening. I have OpenSSL statically compiled with Python v0.9.8. I
>> have another third party library that uses another version of OpenSSL
>> 1.0.1, linked dynamically. My application is dynamically linked with
>> the same version of OpenSSL as the third party library. During the
>> execution of my application. I load Python to run some code and that
>> code then tries to interact with the third party library linked
>> dynamically. Would newer version of OpenSSL DLL be loaded or would it
>> be satisfied with the version of OpenSSL statically loaded.
>
> The Python ssl module will always use its statically linked library.  It
> doesn't care which dynamic libraries are loaded -- the external
> references it needs were already satisfied at link time.

Would it affect other packages that are linked dynamically?

--
Bharath