Hello all,

I’m currently working on a TLS / SSL implementation and on windows I am planning to support the Certificate Store that is built in.  This requires me to use the CryptoAPI dlls.  The code is complex and it uses a number of header files and many steps.  I built some C++ code that does what I’m looking for so now I would like to incorporate this into Squeak.

I’d assumed that FFI was like DDL/C connect in VW but that’s not what I’m seeing.  So my question is: What is the best way to get this working?  Should I hack away at FFI and support the api directly, and is that even possible?  Should I create DLL’s to call and use them with FFI, or should I compile some sort of plugins?  My preference would be to call the api directly without having to create dll’s, duplicating my C++ code in Smalltalk if possible.

Some direction and comparisons of different options would be very helpful.

Thank you for your help!

Ron Teitelbaum