Curt Hibbs
12/2/2004 6:29:00 PM
James Britt wrote:
>
> Jamis Buck wrote:
>
> > James Britt wrote:
> >>
> >> Has anyone gotten Net:SSH working with the 1-click version?
> >
> >
> > Well, I have, but only because I compiled the Ruby/OpenSSL module
> > myself. It relies on version 8 of the msvcrt dll, which you may or may
> > not have installed, but if you'd like I can send along (or post) the
> > binary version I created.
>
> Thank you; I may take you up on the offer of the binary. I have
> numerous copies of msvcrt.dll, though the latest seems to be version
> 6.something. Where does one get version 8?
>
> I'd be most interested in understanding how to reproduce this myself, in
> part because I know of people who are interested in using Ruby for
> corporate admin tools, but problems with SSL on Windows hold them back.
>
> I think the ideal situation would be to have the required DLL included
> in the 1-click installer; maybe the next best thing is a set of clear
> instructions on creating the DLL. And the a pre-compiled binary as a
> fall back.
I'm planning to incloude OpenSSL in the next time I post a release of the
One-Click Installer. I haven't yet tried to build/integrate OpenSLL, so I
don't know if I'll run into any problems. But when I asked about this on
ruby-talk, the responses seem to indicate I should not have any problems.
Curt