Esteemed monks,

I have a large Win32 Perl/Tk app. It uses LWP and needs https, so it has to use two dll's - libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll. All is fine provided the machine we install on either had up to date dll's or is able to use the dll's I unpack with the app using ActiveStates PerlApp packager.

But if their are outdated dll's in the Windows or Windows/System32 directories then I appear to be our of luck!

I have had to walk several users through the process of downloading and installing the newer DLL's in their Windows - having found where the files are.

I am almost at the point of writing a Perl based installer that will check out the whole sordid mess and figureo ut what needs to be done to replace the dll's. Is this the right way to do it? Am I missing something?

jdtoronto

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