Compiling Net::SSLeay vs. OpenSSL vs. Perl 5.8.1

Corion has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In an act of stubbornness, I decided to compile my own Perl 5.8.1 under Win32 instead of using any of the prefabricated binaries. I have bested the CPAN problems of having a space in my home directory, installed HTML::Parser without a problem, but I have now hit a stopgap in my way:

Net::SSLeay will not pass its tests but rather crash perl when its test suite is run. I compiled and installed (after another) openssl-0.9.6k and the current release of openssl-0.9.7, but to no avail - one spawned Perl process dies and the other remains as a consoleless zombie process.

Searching with Google yielded no reports or fixes, so I'm turning to the good monks to help me out with this. If this is to be submitted to p5p, I will do so, but as I don't monitor it regularly enough, I'll try here if there is an easy solution to my stupidity :-)

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Max\.cpan\build\Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25>perl
+ Makefile.
pl -windows d:\Programme\OpenSSL\
Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6j or 0.9.7b or newer...
You have OpenSSL-0.9.6k installed in d:\Programme\OpenSSL\
Be sure to use the same compiler and options to compile your OpenSSL, 
+perl, and
Net::SSLeay. Mixing and matching compilers is not supported. (Currentl
+y I do not
 have a way to check this on Windows platform.)
Writing Makefile for Net::SSLeay::Handle
Writing Makefile for Net::SSLeay

C:\Dokumente und C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Max\.cpan\build\Net_SS
+Leay.pm-1.25>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

        cl -c  -Id:\Programme\OpenSSL\/include -Id:\Programme\OpenSSL\
+/inc32 -I/
usr/kerberos/include  -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONS
+OLE -DNO_S
TRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -D
+USE_PERLIO
 -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -O    -DVERSION=\"1.25\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"1.25\"
+  "-ID:\pe
rl\5.8.1\lib\CORE"  -DPERL5 -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 SSLeay.c
SSLeay.c
SSLeay.xs(1971) : warning C4018: '<=' : Konflikt zwischen signed und u
+nsigned
Running Mkbootstrap for Net::SSLeay ()
        D:\perl\5.8.1\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 SS
+Leay.bs
        link -out:blib\arch\auto\Net\SSLeay\SSLeay.dll -dll -nologo -n
+odefaultli
b -release  -libpath:"d:\perl\5.8.1\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86 SSLeay.obj
+   D:\perl
\5.8.1\lib\CORE\perl58.lib d:\Programme\OpenSSL\\lib\libeay32.lib d:\P
+rogramme\O
penSSL\\lib\ssleay32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\oldnames.lib C:
+\PROGRA~1\
MICROS~3\VC98\lib\kernel32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\user32.li
+b C:\PROGR
A~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\gdi32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\winspool
+.lib C:\PR
OGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\comdlg32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\ad
+vapi32.lib
 C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\shell32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\l
+ib\ole32.l
ib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\oleaut32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC9
+8\lib\neta
pi32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\uuid.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\V
+C98\lib\ws
ock32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\mpr.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\V
+C98\lib\wi
nmm.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\version.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3
+\VC98\lib\
odbc32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib\odbccp32.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICR
+OS~3\VC98\
lib\msvcrt.lib -def:SSLeay.def
   Bibliothek blib\arch\auto\Net\SSLeay\SSLeay.lib und Objekt blib\arc
+h\auto\Net
\SSLeay\SSLeay.exp wird erstellt
        D:\perl\5.8.1\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 755 bl
+ib\arch\au
to\Net\SSLeay\SSLeay.dll
        D:\perl\5.8.1\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e cp SSLeay.bs
+ blib\arch
\auto\Net\SSLeay\SSLeay.bs
        D:\perl\5.8.1\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 bl
+ib\arch\au
to\Net\SSLeay\SSLeay.bs
        D:\perl\5.8.1\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
1..20
ok 1
Testing pointer to int casting...
cc: cl
Optimierender Microsoft (R) 32-Bit C/C++-Compiler, Version 12.00.8168,
+ fuer x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

ptrcasttst.c
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 6.00.8168
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.

/out:ptrcasttst.exe
/out:ptrcasttst.exe
ptrcasttst.obj
ok
./ptrcasttst: 'void *' len: 4, 'unsigned long int' len: 4.
ptrcasttst: ok (003000B0 == 003000B0).
ok
ok
ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
        Spawning a TCP test server on port 1211, pid=-1444...
(first crash here)
*** not ok 5tcp

        Spawning a SSL test server on port 1212, pid=-1424...
ok 5
ok 6
ok 7
ok 8
ok 9
        Sending 1 MB over localhost, may take a while (and some VM)...
                ...took 3 secs (341 KB/s)
ok 10
932: ssl read failed at examples/cli-cert.pl line 53.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '
+0x1'
Stop.
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My Perl is :

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Max\.cpan\build\Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25>perl
+ -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip
+licity=def
ine
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CON
+SOLE -DNO_
STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS 
+-DUSE_PERL
IO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
    optimize='-MD -DNDEBUG -O1',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64
+', lseeksi
ze=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release  -libpath:"d:\
+perl\5.8.1
\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'
    libpth=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib
    libs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
+  comdlg32
.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uui
+d.lib wsoc
k32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.
+lib
    perllibs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool
+.lib  comd
lg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib
+ uuid.lib
wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msv
+crt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
    gnulibc_version='undef'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release  -l
+ibpath:"d:
\perl\5.8.1\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_
CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Oct 12 2003 12:24:00
  @INC:
    D:/perl/5.8.1/lib
    D:/perl/site/5.8.1/lib
    D:/perl/site/lib
    .
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perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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