[Twisted-Python] Error when trying to import reactor

[Ian Fountain]

Thanks for the quick responses! I admit that putting the dlls directly into
the System32 folder was a rookie move, but I desperately wanted to get
twisted up and running :). So now I have a few more questions if you don't
mind answering them. Like I said before, I am a rookie so I am simply
following whatever it tells me to do in the O'Reilly Twisted Network
Programming Essentials book so I downloaded and installed the following:
pyOpenSSL-0.8.winxp32-py2.5.msi
pycrypto-2.0.1.win32-py2.5.exe
Twisted_NoDocs-8.2.0.win32-py2.5.exe
So do I still have to install openSSL on my machine even though I installed
all of those? Also do I have to use Python 2.5 if I want to use pycrypto and
pyOpenSSL? And finally I was looking around and I didn't see anything that
stated that Vista is even supported. Could that be another problem I might
run into. Thanks again for all the help.



On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:17 AM, <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:

>
> On 09:33 am, florent.aide at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Ian Fountain <ian.fountain at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am new to all this so you will have to forgive me. I have a vista
>>> machine
>>> with python 2.5 on it and I just installed twisted (py2.5), pyOpenSSL
>>> (py2.5), and pycrypto (py2.5) but when I try to do the following:
>>> "from twisted.internet import reactor" I get the following error:
>>> "This application has failed to start because libeay32.dll was not found.
>>> Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
>>> I then found a copy of libeay32.dll and put it in my System32 folder and
>>> then get the following error:
>>> "The procedure entry point ERR_load_RAND_string could not be located in
>>> the
>>> dynamic link library libeay32.dll."
>>> I am currently out of ideas on what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> You need to have openssl install on your machine. Either download the
>> source and compile by yourself of use the binaries from there:
>>
>
> More importantly you need to have a *matching* version of pyopenssl and
> openssl installed.
>
> Please don't don't manually put libraries into your System32 folder; use
> packages, or put the dlls somewhere else where you are more likely to find
> them.  It can make problems like this very hard to diagnose, when later you
> come back and try to properly install openssl, but the version in your
> system32 directory is somehow getting picked up instead of the version that
> you just installed.
>
> I wanted to refer you to some documentation from here, but the pyopenssl
> website is oddly silent on which version of OpenSSL to use on Windows. Would
> whoever built
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31249&package_id=90289please state which version of win32 openssl it was built against?  I'm
> guessing 0.9.8j, but I'm not too confident in that guess...
>
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