Re: [pyOpenSSL] DLL load failed.

[patrick f. <pa...@we...>]

Figured it out at least this far - it's the 64 bit-ness.

I installed the OpenSSL prebuilt module into a python 2.5 installation 
on a 32 bit windows machine.

mk_simple_certs.py ran successfully and produced the certs (in the 
simple subdirectory).

So I think it fair to say this all of this stuff will work on a 32-bit 
machine - but not a 64-bit machine.

I'm considering installing a 3.x version of python to see if this 
handles 64-bit windows better (in particular how python loads DLLs).

Note that on a 64-bit machine you have two versions of the system32 
directory (where Windows DLLs are often put):

c:\windows\system32

c:\windows\sysWOW64

Confusingly the first (which is the same as the old 32 bit name) is the 
64 bit location.  WOW64 is actually the 32 bit location.

pat