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[Installation on DOS (with djgpp), Windows, OpenVMS, MacOS (before MacOS X)
- and NetWare is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS,
+ and NetWare is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.WIN, INSTALL.VMS,
INSTALL.MacOS and INSTALL.NW.
This document describes installation on operating systems in the Unix
To install OpenSSL, you will need:
* make
- * Perl 5
+ * Perl 5 with core modules (please read README.PERL)
+ * The perl module Text::Template (please read README.PERL)
* an ANSI C compiler
* a development environment in form of development libraries and C
header files
--openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified,
the library files and binaries are also installed there.
+ no-autoalginit Don't automatically load all supported ciphers and digests.
+ Typically OpenSSL will make available all of its supported
+ ciphers and digests. For a statically linked application this
+ may be undesirable if small executable size is an objective.
+ This only affects libcrypto. Ciphers and digests will have to be
+ loaded manually using EVP_add_cipher() and EVP_add_digest() if
+ this option is used.
+
+ no-autoerrinit Don't automatically load all libcrypto/libssl error strings.
+ Typically OpenSSL will automatically load human readable error
+ strings. For a statically linked application this may be
+ undesirable if small executable size is an objective.
+
no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded
applications.
compiler flags for any other CPU specific configuration,
e.g. "-m32" to build x86 code on an x64 system.
- no-sse2 Exclude SSE2 code pathes. Normally SSE2 extention is
+ no-sse2 Exclude SSE2 code pathes. Normally SSE2 extension is
detected at run-time, but the decision whether or not the
machine code will be executed is taken solely on CPU
capability vector. This means that if you happen to run OS
generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
systems.
- Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.org and
+ Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.in and
defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from
crypto/opensslconf.h.in).
standard headers). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, please
report the problem to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org> (note that your
message will be recorded in the request tracker publicly readable
- via http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html and will be forwarded to a
- public mailing list). Include the output of "make report" in your message.
- Please check out the request tracker. Maybe the bug was already
- reported or has already been fixed.
+ at https://www.openssl.org/community/index.html#bugs and will be
+ forwarded to a public mailing list). Include the output of "make
+ report" in your message. Please check out the request tracker. Maybe
+ the bug was already reported or has already been fixed.
[If you encounter assembler error messages, try the "no-asm"
configuration option as an immediate fix.]
$ make test
- If a test fails, look at the output. There may be reasons for
- the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like a missing
- or malfunctioning bc). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself,
- try removing any compiler optimization flags from the CFLAG line
- in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". Please send a bug
- report to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>, including the output of
- "make report" in order to be added to the request tracker at
- http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html.
+ If some tests fail, look at the output. There may be reasons for
+ the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like a
+ malfunction with Perl). You may want increased verbosity, that
+ can be accomplished like this:
+
+ $ HARNESS_VERBOSE=yes make test
+
+ Also, you will find logs for all commands the tests have executed
+ in logs, test/test_*.log, one for each individual test.
+
+ If you want to run just one or a few specific tests, you can use
+ the make variable TESTS to specify them, like this:
+
+ $ make TESTS='test_rsa test_dsa' test
+
+ And of course, you can combine:
+
+ $ HARNESS_VERBOSE=yes make TESTS='test_rsa test_dsa' test
+
+ You can find the list of available tests like this:
+
+ $ make list-tests
+
+ If you find a problem with OpenSSL itself, try removing any
+ compiler optimization flags from the CFLAG line in Makefile and
+ run "make clean; make".
+
+ Please send a bug report to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>, and when
+ you do, please run the following and include the output in your
+ report:
+
+ $ make report
4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with
you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message
from the Configure script.)
+ OpenSSL provides built-in support for two threading models: pthreads (found on
+ most UNIX/Linux systems), and Windows threads. No other threading models are
+ supported. If your platform does not provide pthreads or Windows threads then
+ you should Configure with the "no-threads" option.
Note on shared libraries
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rm -f $F; ln -s $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F $F
echo $F '->' $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F
done
- make -f Makefile.org clean
+ make -f Makefile.in clean
OPENSSL_SOURCE is an environment variable that contains the absolute (this
is important!) path to the OpenSSL source tree.
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