I have been fighting with this for days now. I'm getting problems almost identical to what is listed in this node: Re^2: PAR::Packer - 'dll not found' error on run

I downloaded the latest version of openssl (openssl-0.9.8h) and Net-SSLeay (Net-SSLeay-1.36) and followed as best I could the installation instructions in README.Win32. The main differences are that I'm using Windows 7 64-bit instead of Windows Server 2003, Activestate Perl build 822 instead of 820, Visual Studio 2k8 command prompt instead of VC++ 6.0, and I didn't install the SDK (everything successfully compiles without it). I execute the following commands with no errors: 

cd openssl-0.9.8h
perl Configure VC-WIN32 --prefix=c:/OpenSSL
ms\do_ms
nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak install
copy c:\OpenSSL\bin\*.dll c:\windows\system32

cd ..\Net-SSLeay-1.36
perl Makefile.PL
nmake

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Then if I attempt an nmake test, it fails with the "Bad file descriptor"/"vendor undefined macro" error -- I've had this occur on either tcpcat or verify_none, depending on what version of openssl I try. If I "nmake install", it installs correctly, but then the "vendor undefined" error comes when I try to run a script that includes the module. I'm seriously out of ideas -- my Google-fu is entirely exhausted and I see no solution to this. I've changed nothing of the code and my Windows/ActiveState installations are vanilla. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong? Or specify exactly how to install this thing on a Windows machine?

In reply to installing Net-SSLeay on Windows system by wojtyk

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