[Development] wince and openssl

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Jul 29 18:46:43 CEST 2015


On Wednesday 29 July 2015 18:17:38 Andreas Holzammer wrote:
> I can agree on that its just that the default is to off. You just need
> to pass -openssl to configure and be good with it. Its default is to no
> because a normal windows ce user does not use openssl, so its just
> taking care of the normal usecase and not the cornercases. The default
> would mean that every CE user will need to run the configure check if
> its there, you will most likely need to pass additional include and lib
> folders anyhow to configure in order to make openssl linking possible,
> so its I think ok to require to pass -openssl to configure in order to
> switch it on.

I don't agree with that. Just leave the default to auto and it will change to 
"yes" if it finds the headers. The -openssl option changes it to "yes" without 
checking the headers, so the link may build later because it's missing 
compiler flags.

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