From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:06:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] msvc: Fix an "unrecognized option" linker warning
Message-ID: <4B5A3D8C.3000701@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B5758BF.9090806@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

On 20.01.2010 20:25, Ramsay Jones wrote:

> Having recently added support for building git-imap-send on
> Windows, we now link against OpenSSL libraries, and the linker
> issues the following warning:
>
>      warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/lssl'; ignored
>
> In order to suppress the warning, we change the msvc linker
> script to translate an '-lssl' parameter to the ssleay32.lib
> library.
>
> Note that the linker script was already including ssleay32.lib
> (along with libeay32.lib) as part of the translation of the
> '-lcrypto' library parameter.  However, libeay32.dll does not
> depend on ssleay32.dll and can be used stand-alone, so we remove
> ssleay32.lib from the '-lcrypto' translation.
>
> The dependence of ssleay32.dll on libeay32.dll is represented in
> the Makefile by the NEEDS_CRYPTO_WITH_SSL build variable.
>
> Also, add the corresponding change to the buildsystem generator.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones<ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>

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Sebastian Schuberth