[Qt-interest] Is there something special needed for SSL on Windows?

[Garth Dahlstrom]

On 2009-12-07, at 9:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 
> I tried to run a small SSL-using app on Windows (using Qt Designer on 
> Windows 7 64-bit) but QSslSocket generates 
> QAbstractSocket::UnknownSocketError errors.
> 
> It works fine in Linux.
> 
> Before I start looking into whether the problem lies with my code, are 
> there known issues with Qt and SSL on Windows?  

There are known issues relating to building w/ SSL support on Windows, you can read about them in the QT Bug tracker.   Once built it will work.

> Do I need OpenSSL libaries/headers?  

Yes, you need to rebuild Qt with OpenSSL support on Windows; on Linux and OSX OpenSSL support is enabled by default.

> The program compiles fine though, no errors or 
> warnings about not found libraries/headers.  It also is able to run OK 
> (no errors about missing DLLs), except for SSL not working, of course.

Yup, your app will fail silently until you rebuild it with OpenSSL support, this is "normal" on Windows.

-G
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