INSTALLATION ON THE WIN32 PLATFORM
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+ [Instructions for building for Windows CE can be found in INSTALL.WCE]
+
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.
* Microsoft MASM (aka "ml")
* Free Netwide Assembler NASM.
- MASM was at one point distributed with VC++. It is now distributed with some
- Microsoft DDKs, for example the Windows NT 4.0 DDK and the Windows 98 DDK. If
- you do not have either of these DDKs then you can just download the binaries
- for the Windows 98 DDK and extract and rename the two files XXXXXml.exe and
- XXXXXml.err, to ml.exe and ml.err and install somewhere on your PATH. Both
- DDKs can be downloaded from the Microsoft developers site www.msdn.com.
+ MASM is distributed with most versions of VC++. For the versions where it is
+ not included in VC++, it is also distributed with some Microsoft DDKs, for
+ example the Windows NT 4.0 DDK and the Windows 98 DDK. If you do not have
+ either of these DDKs then you can just download the binaries for the Windows
+ 98 DDK and extract and rename the two files XXXXXml.exe and XXXXXml.err, to
+ ml.exe and ml.err and install somewhere on your PATH. Both DDKs can be
+ downloaded from the Microsoft developers site www.msdn.com.
NASM is freely available. Version 0.98 was used during testing: other versions
may also work. It is available from many places, see for example:
There are various changes you can make to the Win32 compile environment. By
default the library is not compiled with debugging symbols. If you add 'debug'
to the mk1mf.pl lines in the do_* batch file then debugging symbols will be
- compiled in.
+ compiled in. Note that mk1mf.pl expects the platform to be the last argument
+ on the command line, so 'debug' must appear before that, as all other options.
The default Win32 environment is to leave out any Windows NT specific
features.