On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Steve Roberts wrote:

> O started by downloading a generic win32 7.19.5 SSL binary then I downloaded
> the shininglightpro OpenSSL package and then it told me I needed the Visual
> C++ Redistributables.

"it" told you that? What it? What is "Visual C++ Redistributables" anyway and
for what purpose would you need them?

> I didn't see any end in sight.

curl and the two OpenSSL DLLs is enough.

> will this result in an executable that I can share with my users in such a
> way that they will not have to install a bunch of stuff?

It should result in a single executable and two DLLs it needs.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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