libSSL problem

I am trying to port to MACOS a DLL (originally written for windows) which using several opensource external libraries including ACE lib and libSSL, libxml2 and libbz2.
The project works perfectly on winwdows, it compiles and works perfectly on MacOS until I get to a specific call inside the libSSL.
When I get to call this function: SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations the application crashes, and apparently crashes because the the ssl_context that is passed as first parameter the field ssl is = 0.
Someone suggested me that a previous call to sll_init could be missing, but that would be very strange because on windows that same code works fine.
I already tried to link ssl statically and dinamically, I have also tried using ssl version 1.0.0b and 0.9.7m and nothing changes does anybody have a suggestion ?

I think you get a faster and better response on a forum dedicated to libssl.
http://groups.google.com/group/maili...l.users/topics

Good suggestion thanks