Re: Some questions about the build process...

Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote on 12/14/2005 01:23:42 PM:

> The shell extension is linked against Subversion libs which are compiled

> without any network support (svn/DAV/file). The reason is that some
> programs install the OpenSSL dll not in their programs folder but in the

> Windows or System32 folder(!). If that OpenSSL dll doesn't have the same

> version as the one TSVN/Subversion is linked against, those programs
> then fail or even crash (ZoneAlarm is just one example).
> Because if the shell dll loads OpenSSL, other programs which violate
> that rule will not load their own OpenSSL dll but the one already loaded

> by the shell dll.
>
> Since there are many programmers out there who can't read the docs of
> OpenSSL (which *clearly* state that you must not install the dll in a
> system folder or any path that's in the PATH env variable but *only* in
> the same folder as the exe which needs it) we have to compile Subversion

> twice.
>
> Also, those libs are used in TortoiseMerge, SubWCRev - those programs
> don't need network support either (just a side effect of this).

Should we (ok, you) revisit Will's original concept of the cache and
remove the Subversion libraries from the Shell? I seem to recall that the
main thing was the Properties page would have to have something done with
it.

It would be nice to not have to do that custom build step any more.

Mark

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