INSTALLATION ON THE WIN32 PLATFORM
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- Heres a few comments about building OpenSSL in Windows environments. Most of
- this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
+ Heres a few comments about building OpenSSL in Windows environments. Most
+ of this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
modification.
- You need Perl for Win32 (available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl)
+ You need Perl for Win32. Unless you will build on Cygwin, you will need
+ ActiveState Perl, available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl.
+ For Cygwin users, there's more info in the Cygwin section.
+
and one of the following C compilers:
* Visual C++
* Borland C
- * GNU C (Mingw32 or Cygwin32)
+ * GNU C (Mingw32 or Cygwin)
If you want to compile in the assembly language routines with Visual C++ then
you will need an assembler. This is worth doing because it will result in
> cd out
> ..\ms\test
- GNU C (CygWin32)
- ---------------
+ GNU C (Cygwin)
+ --------------
- CygWin32 provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running on
+ Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running on
NT 4.0, Windows 9x and Windows 2000. Consequently, a make of OpenSSL
- with CygWin is closer to a GNU bash environment such as Linux rather
+ with Cygwin is closer to a GNU bash environment such as Linux rather
than other W32 makes that are based on a single makefile approach.
- CygWin32 implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is
+ Cygwin implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is
contrasted to Mingw32 which links dynamically to msvcrt.dll or
crtdll.dll.
- To build OpenSSL using CygWin32:
+ To build OpenSSL using Cygwin:
- * Install CygWin32 (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
+ * Install Cygwin (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
- * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path (recent Cygwin perl or
+ * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path (recent Cygwin perl
+ (version 5.6.1-2 of the latter has been reported to work) or
ActivePerl)
- * Run the CygWin bash shell
+ * Run the Cygwin bash shell
* $ tar zxvf openssl-x.x.x.tar.gz
$ cd openssl-x.x.x
- $ ./Configure no-threads CygWin32
+ $ ./config
[...]
$ make
[...]
This will create a default install in /usr/local/ssl.
- CygWin32 Notes:
+ Cygwin Notes:
"make test" and normal file operations may fail in directories
- mounted as text (i.e. mount -t c:\somewhere /home) due to CygWin
+ mounted as text (i.e. mount -t c:\somewhere /home) due to Cygwin
stripping of carriage returns. To avoid this ensure that a binary
mount is used, e.g. mount -b c:\somewhere /home.
- As of version 1.1.1 CygWin32 is relatively unstable in its handling
+ As of version 1.1.1 Cygwin is relatively unstable in its handling
of cr/lf issues. These make procedures succeeded with versions 1.1 and
the snapshot 20000524 (Slow!).
- "bc" is not provided in the CygWin32 distribution. This causes a
+ "bc" is not provided in the Cygwin distribution. This causes a
non-fatal error in "make test" but is otherwise harmless. If
- desired, GNU bc can be built with CygWin32 without change.
+ desired, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change.
Installation
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- There's currently no real installation procedure for Win32. There are,
- however, some suggestions:
+ If you used the Cygwin procedure above, you have already installed and
+ can skip this section. For all other procedures, there's currently no real
+ installation procedure for Win32. There are, however, some suggestions:
- do nothing. The include files are found in the inc32/ subdirectory,
all binaries are found in out32dll/ or out32/ depending if you built