gsoap with SSL

Yesterday we managed to get the webservice configured so that its visible outside to the outside world. I didn’t do much but D.J Merrill at Bowdoin College was able to work his magic. The only issue is that my client application is using gsoap (C++ environment)  and apparently doesn’t include ssl as part of the win32 binaries. At least the wsdl2h utility isn’t built that way.

First off one needs something like openssl installed. Getting this downloaded was easy. To build it you need Perl. Great, I removed that a while ago as I wasn’t using it. Back to ActivePerl and get that. With Perl installed building openssl was simple, just follow the directions under install.w32.

Back to rebuilding gsoap. The Visual Studio project included doesn’t seem to work, at least it doesn’t within the limits of my current attention span. Lets try cygwin. Much better,run configure, make, and make install. The only issue is that I didn’t change the install folder so everything gets put in under the cgywin folders. No big deal just copy the required files where I need them. I’ll have to fix this later.

Now the wsdl2h works fine. It connects to the webservice located at the college!  Next, rebuild the app and test……