Re: Openssl program not compiling

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 13 18:12, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
> >> This used to work in the past, there was no need to switch the order, but it fails now. Why?
> 
> > Because the new Windows headers from Mingw64 define X509_NAME and
> > OCSP_RESPONSE, which the former Mingw32 Windows headers didn't.
> 
> Hi Corinna,
> 
>  ÂThank you for your reply. In this case, the reason for the #include <windows.h> and also <sys/cygwin.h> 
> is because there is code in Alpine to login to the imap server. It uses calls such as cygwin_logon_user
> and cygwin_set_impersonation_token. Actually the code is in the c-client library - a cygwin package - so that the imap server will be able to login a user. The c-client package does not build in cygwin because of that. I do need to include <openssl/crypt.h> too. As a result the c-client package needs to be patched for it to build. This was not needed in the past.
> 
>  ÂI can live with reversing the order of the includes, but would prefer the status quo if possible. Do I have to switch the includes permanently? Thank you.

You should rather add the #define NOCRYPT, but otherwise the answer is
"yes".  We switched to the newer set of Windows header files deliberately.


Corinna

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