Archive for July, 2016

Compiling static OpenSSL with /MD[d]

Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

So, you have a DLL that uses OpenSSL. Maybe your DLL uses libcurl and you want to support HTTPS? And, you want to statically link to avoid distributing multiple files. You’re couldn’t find a static build of the OpenSSL libs, could you? And when you downloaded the source, you found that only supports static linkage […]

Adobe’s public FTP site

Monday, July 18th, 2016

FYI: Adobe publicly hosts the installers for Acrobat reader on Adobe’s public FTP site. Naturally there are license conditions attached to the use of these files, so be sure you understand them. Just so you know.