[Interest] Qt and Open SSL

[Bob Hood]

On 10/14/2018 6:42 PM, Christopher Probst wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> To enable SSL support I have added my own compiled version of ssleay32.dll 
> and libeay32.dll to the Qt lib path. It seems to work fine.
>
> My question regards these two other libs mentioned in the Qt documentation 
> (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/ssl.html) :
> -lcrypto
> -lssl,


These are the "new-style" library names beginning with OSS v1.1.0.  You have 
compiled a version prior to that, which produces the "old-style" names.

"libeay32" is now "libcrypto"
"ssleay32" is now "libssl"

Most recent versions of Qt5 will only link to/work with v1.1.0+ OpenSSL builds.