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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.W32 | 13 |
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diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32 index 4f30700885..a54ea11cb8 100644 --- a/INSTALL.W32 +++ b/INSTALL.W32 @@ -165,6 +165,13 @@ One final comment about compiling applications linked to the OpenSSL library. If you don't use the multithreaded DLL runtime library (/MD option) your - program will almost certainly crash: see the original SSLeay description - below for more details. - + program will almost certainly crash because malloc gets confused -- the + OpenSSL DLLs are statically linked to one version, the application must + not use a different one. You might be able to work around such problems + by adding CRYPTO_malloc_init() to your program before any calls to the + OpenSSL libraries: This tells the OpenSSL libraries to use the same + malloc(), free() and realloc() as the application. However there are many + standard library functions used by OpenSSL that call malloc() internally + (e.g. fopen()), and OpenSSL cannot change these; so in general you cannot + rely on CYRPTO_malloc_init() solving your problem, and you should + consistently use the multithreaded library. |