this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
modification. See the end of this file for Eric's original comments.
- You will Perl for Win32 (available from http://activestate.com/ActivePerl)
+ You need Perl for Win32 (available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl)
and one of the following C compilers:
* Visual C++
* Compile OpenSSL:
- Run ms\mw.bat
+ > perl Configure Mingw32
+ > ms\mw.bat
This will create the library and binaries in out.
someone forgot to add a function to the header file.
In this latter case check out the header file to see if the function is
- defined in the header file: it should be defined twice: once with ANSI
- prototypes and once without. If its missing from the non ASNI section then
- add an entry for it: check that ms\do_ms now reports missing numbers and
- update the numbers as above.
+ defined in the header file.
If you get warnings in the code then the compilation will halt.
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The orignal Windows build instructions from SSLeay follow.
-Note: some of this may be out of date and no longer applicable
+Note: some of this may be out of date and no longer applicable. In particular
+the Crypto_malloc_init() comment appears to be wrong: you always need to use
+the same runtime library as the DLL itself.
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