The ordinal 968 issue - dll

Question

I am using openssl in a project. It works fine on one machine. However, on an xp pro machine I get:
The ordinal 968 could not be located in hte dynamic link library LIBEAY32.dll
Does anyone know how to fix this issue, is it a dependency issue on some other dll?

Answer 1

A Google search leads to a forum thread where someone solved this problem. This might help you to do so, too.

Answer 2

This Page:
http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
Pointed me to this:
Install the c++ 2008 redistributable and that solved the problem.

Answer 3

I had the similar problem, just with a different number (3906).
When I searched for all libeay32.dll files in my %PATH%, I noticed that there are quite a few installed on my system. The first in the path happened to be an older version (OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008), installed with Gnuwin32. I renamed this file to libeay32.dll.xxx, effectively disabling this dll, and this fixed the issue for me! The next libeay32.dll on my path is a much more recent version (OpenSSL 1.0.1h 5 Jun 2014).
I wrote this little python script to find the libeay32.dll files on my system, and to determine the OpenSSL version:
import os, re
for dir in os.getenv("PATH").split(";"):
filename = os.path.join(dir, "libeay32.dll")
if os.path.exists(filename):
print("== " + dir)
with open(filename, "rb") as fh:
for line in fh:
m = re.search("OpenSSL [0-9][0-9. a-zA-Z]+", line)
if m:
print(m.group(0))
break