Re: [pyOpenSSL] PyOpenSSL Linux 32/64 bit problem

[Jean-Paul C. <ex...@di...>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:31:23 -0700 (PDT), Pravin Sinha <pks...@ya...> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>PyOpenSSL, built on 32 bit Linux does not work on 64 bit Linux and vice-versa. I have a requirement where I should be able to share the lib built on one machine(either 32bit or 64 bit, whichever works) to work with both. Any Idea if I can achieve  this.
>
>The error which I am getting while importing OpenSSL in python is:
>
>>>> import OpenSSL
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  File "/test/OpenSSL/__init__.py", line 11, in ?
>    import rand, crypto, SSL, tsafe
>ImportError: /test/OpenSSL/rand.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>_____________________________________________________________________
>
>Appreciate your time and help
>Regards,
>-Pravin.
>

I don't think this is an issue unique to pyOpenSSL.  This is how ELF shared
objects work.  I looked around a bit to try to find some documentation on a
way to build a combined 32/64 bit ELF library but I didn't find much.  I'm
not even sure it's possible; you may want to investigate that further.  If
you can figure out how to do it, then you can try building pyOpenSSL's
extension modules manually however is appropriate.  `setup.py build_ext´
allows a little customization, but I suspect not enough for this.

Jean-Paul