[AWS] AWS 1.4 on Windows XP: Demos fail because of missing SSL DLL access rights

[Ronald Dauster]

Hi,

After building with MODE=ssl in makefile.conf, all demos fail to start;
displaying a MessageBox saying that some components failed to initialize
properly (and XP recommends to reinstall the application :-)

When with MODE=std everything works fine.

I finally found that the cause of this problem are the security settings
of libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll.  My account had read and write access,
but not (read/execute) or change.  After changing the access rights
the demos run as expected.

To check that I didn't accidentally change the access rights for these
files, I have unpacked the aws-1.4.tgz with GNU tar 1.13.25 from
the cygwin  distribution into a new diretory, and again, I've no execute 
rights.

Note that in the tar file, the permissions of both dlls are
-rw-rw----
Repackaging the distribution with
-rwxrwxr-x
permissons for these two dlls will probably solve the problem
(works for me).

Regards,
Ronald