fet-5.21.3

[Liviu Lalescu]

On my Windows 7 it works without an error even if I enable automatic search for updates on startup and restart FET.

The search for updates just gets the file http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/crtversion/crtversion.txt . It is http, not https, so SSL should not be involved. And anyway, it is weird that on my computer it works and on yours not.

[Frans]

As you said, it is weird.

Although I am not an computer expert, does the service provider (rules and so on) not play a role here?

However I know what to do now.

[Liviu Lalescu]

What service provider?

It is not a good solution to deactivate automatic search for updates, as you are no longer warned of new versions. We need to find a good solution.

Do you have an antivirus? Do you have a firewall? I am using Microsoft Security Essentials, which is freeware, and I think Windows Defender, if MSE did not disable it. I only installed the minimum necessary programs on Windows, just to compile FET (and iTunes, which has no GNU/Linux version). So I installed 7-zip, Total Commander, Qt 5.2.1, and iTunes.

[Frans]

I agree with you.

What I mean by service provider is my Internet service provider.

In my case it is not serious. I am nearly on pension and I am just fascinated by FET the reason that I still follow the changes, but it will be a good thing to know why if other users get the same error.

I have quite a few programs installed. The majority of these programs are from work.
Programs such as Windows 2007 (Word, Excel, Access etc)
PHP
Python

My antivirus and firewall program is Comodo, also freeware. I am using this for sometime already. (I understand that Essentials is not updated as from 1 April. Do not know if it is true. I also have defender but according to me it is very light weight, because it is free.)

I also use a malware program Glary Utilities (freeware)

R-statistical language

Instead of 7-zip I use IZarc. It supports all 7-zip formats and many more.
I also us Kompozer a free html editor.

There are also other programs, but these program are like FET, you just extract the file to a folder of your choice. Nothing is installed in the registries.


I noticed just now the following:

I search the registry for LIBEAY32.dll and one is listed, the PHP one. If I copy this lib to the FET directory (same version) and enable updates then there is no error. Any other version of this lib does not work.

This indicates to me that the registry entry can have an influence.

So what I can do next, as I do not use PHP a lot, is to uninstall PHP completely and remove  all registry keys referring to the lib. I can anyway install it again.

I will let you know then what is the result.

Frans

[Frans]

Liviu

I did the following:

Uninstall PHP 5 as it uses LIBEAY32.dll
Search Registry for leftovers of LIBEAY32.dll. Found none as the uninstalling of PHP 5 removed the registry entries.
Run fet
Enable automatic update option in fet and run again.
No error,  problem fixed.

So it seems to me that it was PHP 5 as it installs the lib in the registry.
The question now: Why had versions prior to fet 5.21.3 not this problem.

Anyway according to me the problem is solved now.

Thanks.

Frans

[Liviu Lalescu]

Microsoft Security Essentials is still updated for Windows 7. Only for Windows XP the updates stopped.

The versions of FET prior to 5.21.3 used Qt 4, which is completely different from Qt 5 in the way dll's are handled.