Announcement of ossl_ics-openvpn (OpenSSL-Library)

[Admincore-AppDev]

Dear @schwabe,

I want to share my recent work with you, because I think it might be of some interest. I don’t believe what I've created is anything special, but you could benefit from it in the future for sure. I was happy to make platform_external_openssl working on Linux, but I felt unsatisfied with it. The fact that this project is just static and has to be adapted manually with each update made me sad. I thought we might be able to automate the whole process, and after a month of work and testing I believe it’s possible.

I created this: https://github.com/Admincore-AppDev/ossl_ics-openvpn

And I feel very happy and proud of this refactoring, I just can’t keep it to myself. It does its job quickly and seamlessly, respecting all the flags for the CMake compiler. The bonus is that it works with both, SHARED and STATIC builds, and the app size is now much smaller in use of SHARED builds. I understand there might be a good reason why your builds are static, but so far, I don’t see the big reason behind it.

Feel free to take a look over time and let me know what you generally think about it. Everything is in Bash, but I’m not sure if it will run on your MacBook because i create such scripts with Linux. I will continue to develop my Repo with each OpenSSL-Update, whether you need it in future or not. I just wanted to share this with you. Ofc this script could be optimized, but i will do this step by step by time, it works flawless - that's the matter!

Thanks for your attention, and enjoy your day!

Best regards,
Jemy