[ntp:questions] Failure modes on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit

Danny Mayer mayer at pdmconsulting.net
Tue Aug 13 20:23:16 UTC 2013


On 8/13/2013 2:51 PM, David Taylor wrote:
> On 13/08/2013 17:51, Danny Mayer wrote:
> []
>> If you are building your own binaries then the runtime dll's are already
>> installed on your system and you don't need to do anything special.
>>
>> Danny
> 
> Danny,
> 
> When I replaced some binaries which required the 1.1 OpenSSL DLLs with
> ones I had compiled locally with 0.9.8, ntpd.exe failed to run because
> of a DLL versioning issue (it may have been ntpq.exe).
> 
> I needed to compile with OpenSSL 1.0.0c source so that the binaries I
> now produce will work both with earlier SSL DLLs as installed with
> earlier Meinberg installers, and with the later DLLs installed with the
> current Meinberg installer.  Having to cope with mixed versions of the
> DLLs originally by users installed over several years required special
> action to allow seamless upgrades.

All binaries need to be built together with the same versions. You
should not be mixing binaries.

Danny



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