> Grepping through all of my OpenSSL sources, I see only the > above mention and one in 'Configurations\10-main.conf'. > > So how/when is 'gdi32.dll' needed? Maybe it was true in the old-days? My guess is that you are right and that it was needed only for the function readscreen(), used by RAND_screen() (see [1]). A quick search shows that this function was removed in pull request #1079 (merged as commit 888db7f224fe) before the release of 1.1.0, see [2]. Would you mind creating a pull request for changing the NOTES? Matthias [1] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL_1_0_2-stable/crypto/rand/rand_win.c#L679-L745 [2] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1079
