Win32: The binary pgsql package depends on MSVCR71.dll which we must not depend upon

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Phil,

I've tracked down the bug below, which said some of the full win32 gnucash 
binary has a dependency on MSVCR71.DLL. That's the C runtime library of the 
rather old Microsoft Visual Studio compiler version 7.1 (Visual Studio 2003, 
I believe). Your pgsql binary package introduces this dependency into the 
gnucash win32 package.

This kind of compiler-specific DLL cannot be expected to be present on the 
target system, so if it is really needed, one would have to include it in our 
binary package. However, in this case it rather means the binary DLLs for 
PgSQL which you collected from somewhere else have been compiled by that old 
visual studio compiler. Is this really necessary? Isn't there some way to get 
this without a dependency on the visual studio runtime?

Oh, and there's a much more severe error, as mentioned by me in the bugzilla 
item: By including the suitable openssl DLLs (libeay32.dll, libssl32.dll, 
ssleay32.dll) in your pgsql binary, you're silently overwriting those openssl 
DLLs which we compile ourselves during the win32 build, and on which the 
aqbanking library depends upon. In other words, the inclusion of the current 
pgsql binary package most probably will cause any SSL-related operation of 
aqbanking to crash badly.

I propose to remove the pgsql part of the win32 binary for now, until we 
(resp. you) have found a better pgsql binary to include in our build.

Regards,

Christian

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Subject: [Bug 596248] MSVCR71.dll not found error on startup
Date: Samstag, 3. Oktober 2009 15:48
From: "GnuCash" (bugzilla.gnome.org) <bugzilla at gnome.org>
To: stimming at tuhh.de

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596248
  GnuCash | Windows | 2.3.5

--- Comment #6 from Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> 2009-10-03 13:48:36
 UTC --- The following DLLs in our installation's "bin/" folder in r18363
 exhibit a (direct or indirect) dependency on MSVCR71.DLL:

ssleay32.dll
libeay32.dll
krb5_32.dll
k5sprt32.dll
gssapi32.dll
comerr32.dll

These DLLs are all installed from the "pgsql" package, which in turn is being
downloaded as a tarball from the gnucash.org site. In other words, our
postgresql binary package is flawed and must not be used in this way. We need
to fix this on our side.

On a side note, the three openssl DLLs in the pgsql-win32.tar.gz tarball
(libeay32.dll, libssl32.dll, ssleay32.dll) silently overwrite those which we
compile from source and which are needed for aqbanking's SSL connections. We
must not overwrite openssl DLLs with others. This needs to be fixed as well.

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