Re^2: Problem installing Crypt::OpenSSL::Random on Win32

Strawberry Perl ships with both ssl and crypto libraries, named libssl32.a and libcrypt32.a. I tried copying the libraries to, respectively, libssl.a and libcrypto.a. The warnings about missing libraries went away, but the complaints about the unresolved references didn't. The RAND_* functions appear in openssl/rand.h, which ships with Strawberry, so the functions should be in there somewhere, right? I'm wondering if this is a configuration problem either with Strawberry Perl (v. 5.8.9.3) or (much less likely, I assume) with the CPAN module.

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Re^3: Problem installing Crypt::OpenSSL::Random on Win32 by Anonymous Monk on Dec 31, 2009 at 18:37 UTC
If you downloaded a win32 zip version of openssl (as opposed to installing mingw based version into C:\strawberry\c), you can use `perl Makefile.PL "LIBS=-LC:\openssl\lib\MinGW -llibeay32 -lssleay32" " +INC=-IC:\openssl\include"` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Problem installing Crypt::OpenSSL::Random on Win32 by TedHopp (Novice) on Dec 31, 2009 at 21:03 UTC
I managed to find the right library in the mingw distribution. Copying libeay32.a to libssl.a did the trick. (I suppose downloading another openssl win32 library would also work, but this was easier. :-)	[reply]
Re^5: Problem installing Crypt::OpenSSL::Random on Win32 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 01, 2010 at 08:20 UTC
Copying libeay32.a to libssl.a did the trick I certainly didn't expect Strawberry to go with that naming convention for their openssl libraries. I expected they would stick with the more general '-lssl -lcrypto' nomenclature (which is what mingw builds for native win32 in the msys shell) .... but I was wrong. I guess they have good reason(s) for doing that. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^5: Problem installing Crypt::OpenSSL::Random on Win32 by Anonymous Monk on Dec 31, 2009 at 22:46 UTC
All you had to do was pass Makefile.PL some arguments	[reply]
Re^6: Problem installing Crypt::OpenSSL::Random on Win32 by TedHopp (Novice) on Jan 01, 2010 at 17:20 UTC
Re^5: Problem installing Crypt::OpenSSL::Random on Win32 by ig (Vicar) on Jun 26, 2012 at 04:37 UTC
Thanks for that easy fix. Strawberry perl 5.12.3 on Windows 7 has the same problem, and the same fix: copy libeay32.a to libssl.a and the install succeeds.	[reply]