kosmologie has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey all, I hope this is the right adress, and you can help me. I'm currently trying to run a script including some wget commands, but if I try to run it, it says: "The ordinal 2253 could not be located in the dynamic link library LIBEAY32.dll." Any Ideas on that one? I couldn't find anything on the web.
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Re: Problem with libeay32.dll, ordinal 2253
by apl (Monsignor) on Sep 17, 2008 at 18:34 UTC
    Google reveals a similar problem (with response) here.

    Anonymous Monk got it; you probably have two copies of the dll on your machine.

      thanks for your help, but even in the googled 'solution' they don't have an answer at last. I myself had tried already everything as well as the responses suggested. As I'm a real noob, i asked on the wget mailinglist also and was suggested to install OpenSSL from Chris Lewis' website (http://www.ChristopherLewis.com). But I couldn't figure out how to install it (XP), and after asking for some advice I didn't get any answers on that. Do you have any idea for a good page where i could read something?
Re: Problem with libeay32.dll, ordinal 2253
by jettero (Monsignor) on Sep 17, 2008 at 16:37 UTC
    That's not really a perl question... it sounds like your wget is linked against openssl and the openssl is either not installed or not in your path. UPDATE: Yeah, what anonymousmonk said. Why use wget from perl though? Choose WWW::Mechanize and do it in style.

    -Paul

      or there is anoter libeay32 earlier in your path (like the ones that come with some perl modules, get installed in perl/bin)
        yes, there were/are two copies. one in the win/system32 folder and one in a folder win/system32/wins when I rename/delete the one in the .../wins folder nothing changes. when I rename (eg put a 1 in the filename) I get that the file is missing and reinstallling wget might solve the problem.
        doing it in style is way beyond my ablities, its just a script for a databaseupdate and it came with the license to be modified for our special needs. If anyone has the urge to show me how to get around wget, i surely can provide the script, but this i thought is to much to ask...