pychef cannot find libeay32.dll on Windows

[gliptak]

This is installing into a "standalone" Python install (as contrasted with Cygwin).

>scripts\pip install pychef
...
>python -m chef
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python35\lib\runpy.py", line 151, in _run_module_as_main

    mod_name, mod_spec, code = _get_module_details(mod_name)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\runpy.py", line 118, in _get_module_details

    return _get_module_details(pkg_main_name)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\runpy.py", line 104, in _get_module_details

    spec = importlib.util.find_spec(mod_name)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\importlib\util.py", line 88, in find_spec
    parent = __import__(parent_name, fromlist=['__path__'])
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\chef\__init__.py", line 5, in
 <module>
    from chef.api import ChefAPI, autoconfigure
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\chef\api.py", line 17, in <mo
dule>
    from chef.rsa import Key
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\chef\rsa.py", line 6, in <mod
ule>
    _eay = CDLL('libeay32.dll')
  File "C:\Python35\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 347, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

[gliptak]

The workaround is to copy Git\mingw64\bin\libeay32.dll into %PYTHON_HOME%

[coderanger]

Or add that folder to your PATH so it can find the DLL. What variant of OpenSSL does the 3.5 for Windows installer use?

[coderanger]

Oh, it might be libeay64.dll now that we have 64-bit on Windows working correctly.

[gliptak]

I couldn't find a good OpenSSL installer to download ... And yes, Git runs https/ssh protocols using the libeay64.dll. I will continue to exercise this tomorrow.
Would you consider updating the install to deliver libeay64.dll for Windows installs?
Thanks

[coderanger]

Python includes OpenSSL already as part of its TLS support. I don't have a Windows machine handy to look at which DLLs it specifically has for 3.5 though, so you need to do that (or someone else).

[coderanger]

And no, I can't redistribute an OpenSSL Windows binary inside a pure-Python package, I think @dstufft's raw horror might kill me on the spot.

[gliptak]

That wouldn't work well :)

The Windows files are at:

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.1/python-3.5.1-embed-win32.zip

It is not clear to me which one contains OpenSSL ...

[gliptak]

Now I'm seeing InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html InsecureRequestWarning)
I tried to override (for now) by setting api.ssl_verify = False, but it didn't take effect ...

[gliptak]

#49

[coderanger]

I looked in to this a bit last weekend. Apparently I just hallucinated that Python distributes libeay32.dll because as far as I could find, they never did.

[fredrikslattman]

Does this mean that pychef is not supported on Windows? I've tried to copy the libeay32.dll from git/mingw64/ but that doesn't solve the issue.

Is this project abandoned?

[Tech356]

To get pychef to work on Windows for me, I downloaded the SSL libraries from http://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/ and put them into the system32 directory.

[h4ckninja]

Seeing this on Windows 10 and Python 3.8:

Python 3.8.1 (tags/v3.8.1:1b293b6, Dec 18 2019, 23:11:46) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import chef
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Micheal\Projects\Tools\Public\Python\chef-pillage\venv\lib\site-packages\chef\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from chef.api import ChefAPI, autoconfigure
  File "C:\Users\Micheal\Projects\Tools\Public\Python\chef-pillage\venv\lib\site-packages\chef\api.py", line 17, in <module>
    from chef.rsa import Key
  File "C:\Users\Micheal\Projects\Tools\Public\Python\chef-pillage\venv\lib\site-packages\chef\rsa.py", line 6, in <module>
    _eay = CDLL('libeay32.dll')
  File "C:\Users\Micheal\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 373, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
FileNotFoundError: Could not find module 'libeay32.dll'. Try using the full path with constructor syntax.