[Vortex] [ISSUE] API mismatch using custom SSL contexts

Benoit Amiaux b.amiaux at ateme.com
Tue Apr 22 17:49:35 CEST 2008


Hi,

Jens Alfke wrote:
> I don't understand the issue here … assuming OpenSSL is a dynamic 
> library, both Vortex and the host app will be calling into the same 
> version/instantiation of it, so there shouldn't be a problem with 
> version conflicts. (Or do DLLs behave very differently in Windows than 
> what I'm used to from Mac/Unix?)

If you statically link libvortex with openssl, TLS authentication is not 
useable. The main application, which creates the SSL context may not be 
using the same SSL implementation than the libvortex DLL was compiled 
with (SSL symbols are not accessible anymore).

Bye,
Benoit



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