Take the 2-minute tour ×  I installed OpenSSL 1.0.0 on Windows
using the installer available at:
http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html  I added the
.lib files to my project (this is Visual Studio, added it to
Project Settings->Linker->Input), and it compiles and works
fine. But when I remove the OpenSSL DLL files in
Windows\system32, it complains that  "Debugger:: An unhandled
non-continuable STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND exception was thrown during
process load"  Any idea why it's still looking for the DLL even
when it's compiled with the static libs? I'm not referencing the
DLLs anywhere in the project. The static libs I included are
libeay32.lib and ssleay32.lib.  Thanks, -M  share|improve this
question There are also static .lib files in that distribution
and they're > 10 MB in size (don't know why so much). I haven't
tried that yet, but it seems to be what you need. –  Roman
Plášil Nov 3 '11 at 15:37 add comment  3 Answers  up vote 0 down
vote accepted  It's looking for the DLLs because the code is l