PyBitmessage-2021-04-27/src/workprover/Readme.md

Please keep this module independent from the outside code, so that it can be reused in other applications.

If you are going to use it, you should wrap your program's main file in this:

import workprover.dumbsolver

workprover.dumbsolver.libcrypto = ...

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import multiprocessing

    multiprocessing.freeze_support()

    ...

See the multiprocessing module documentation for explaination.

Build fast solver

On Linux, BSDs or MacOS: make -C fastsolver.

On Windows:

• Install OpenSSL. Build it yourself or install third-party prebuilt binaries.

• Install MSVC as part of Visual Studio or standalone. Official offline installer: https://aka.ms/vcpython27.

• Open its command line and go to the fastsolver directory.

• Add OpenSSL paths to environment variables:

set INCLUDE=C:\OpenSSL-Win64\include;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=C:\OpenSSL-Win64\lib;%LIB%

• Do cl @options.txt.

• Append the -32 or -64 suffix to the DLL file name.