[Bug-wget] DLL conflict between wget and curl

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml wget users]

Win-32 XP Pro SP3

A few hours ago I downloaded cURL, unpacked its zip, and moved the exe and
necessary DLLs to the folder where I keep CLI programs.  That is:

   curl.exe          659 KB    V7.25.0.0
   libcurl.dll       529 KB    V7.25.0.0
   libeay32.dll     1516 KB    no version number
   libssl32.dll      345 KB    no version number


Then I moved on to do the same for wget.   But the dependencies zip comes
with 4 DLLs: 

   libeay32.dll     1150 KB    V0.9.8.8
   libiconv2.dll     985 KB    V1.12.2872.39125
   libintl3.dll      101 KB    V0.14.4.1952
   libssl32.dll      228 KB    V0.9.8.8


Clearly I can't put the libeay32 & libssl32 DLLs supplied with wget into the
same folder as the two that came with curl.  And because Windows Explorer
shows no version number info for the ones that came with curl, I don't know
which ones are the more recent versions.

Even if I did know that, I don't know whether it's good practice to keep
each exe with the specific versions of DLLs it was shipped with (though I
suspect that IS the best method) or whether one should just install the most
recent version of each libxxxx.dll and hope.

If the DLLs need kept separately then it follows that neither set should be
in a folder on PATH, and I suppose that neither curl.exe nor wget.exe should
be either.  Is the solution to this problem to put each app in its own
folder and alway specify the path to the exe when I want to use it?

-- 
Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.