Bug 158778

Summary:	duplicate libcrypto-3.dll file in main MSI archive
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Jérôme <jerome.bouat>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	stephane.guillou
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsDevAdvice
Version:	24.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
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Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	97991

Description Jérôme 2023-12-19 13:29:32 UTC

In the daily build, the "program" directory contains the below duplicate files reported by fdupes :
LibreOfficeDev 24:./program/libcrypto-3.dll
LibreOfficeDev 24:./program/python-core-3.8.18/lib/libcrypto-3.dll

This duplicate file uses 5 MB.

Comment 1 Jérôme 2023-12-19 13:32:47 UTC

The below 760 kB file is also a duplicate :
LibreOfficeDev 24:./program/libssl-3.dll
LibreOfficeDev 24:./program/python-core-3.8.18/lib/libssl-3.dll

Comment 2 Julien Nabet 2023-12-19 13:38:36 UTC

Related to https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b4dfba947768834ffecc09056992019878711c8b
python3: update to 3.8.4
which indicates:
"Then there are the changes introduced in "PEP 587 -- Python
Initialization Configuration", which appearingly have modified the
DLL search path behaviour on Windows, so the OpenSLL DLLs aren't
found anymore in the program directory. As a workaround, the
OpenSLL and libffi DLLs are now (also) installed into the Python
lib dir on Windows."

Comment 3 Jérôme 2023-12-19 15:29:17 UTC

Could we use links (ln -s) for libraries as in Linux ?

Comment 4 Jérôme 2023-12-23 16:06:41 UTC

Symbolic links exist in Windows also with relative path :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/fileio/creating-symbolic-links

Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-01-02 16:26:46 UTC

Makes sense to find a way to reuse the same file instead of duplicating it.