From: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:49:27 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add some notes on shared library names on different platforms
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_1-pre1~3332
X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4fa3f08fee253020ea152e11ff1f6fdcab79424f;hp=80d27cdb84985c697f8fabb7649abf1f54714d13

Add some notes on shared library names on different platforms

This is overdue since the addition of the unified build system

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1767)
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a6e8ea6eba..de127df275 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -937,8 +937,8 @@
  supported. If your platform does not provide pthreads or Windows threads then
  you should Configure with the "no-threads" option.
 
- Note on shared libraries
- ------------------------
+ Notes on shared libraries
+ -------------------------
 
  For most systems the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
  build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems
@@ -947,6 +947,31 @@
  where OpenSSL does not know how to build shared libraries the "no-shared"
  option will be forced and only static libraries will be created.
 
+ Shared libraries are named a little differently on different platforms.
+ One way or another, they all have the major OpenSSL version number as
+ part of the file name, i.e. for OpenSSL 1.1.x, 1.1 is somehow part of
+ the name.
+
+ On most POSIXly platforms, shared libraries are named libcrypto.so.1.1
+ and libssl.so.1.1.
+
+ on Cygwin, shared libraries are named cygcrypto-1.1.dll and cygssl-1.1.dll
+ with import libraries libcrypto.dll.a and libssl.dll.a.
+
+ On Windows build with MSVC or using MingW, shared libraries are named
+ libcrypto-1_1.dll and libssl-1_1.dll for 32-bit Windows, libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
+ and libssl-1_1-x64.dll for 64-bit x86_64 Windows, and libcrypto-1_1-ia64.dll
+ and libssl-1_1-ia64.dll for IA64 Windows.  With MSVC, the import libraries
+ are named libcrypto.lib and libssl.lib, while with MingW, they are named
+ libcrypto.dll.a and libddl.dll.a.
+
+ On VMS, shareable images (VMS speak for shared libraries) are named
+ ossl$libcrypto0101_shr.exe and ossl$libssl0101_shr.exe.  However, when
+ OpenSSL is specifically built for 32-bit pointers, the shareable images
+ are named ossl$libcrypto0101_shr32.exe and ossl$libssl0101_shr32.exe
+ instead, and when built for 64-bit pointers, they are named
+ ossl$libcrypto0101_shr64.exe and ossl$libssl0101_shr64.exe.
+
  Note on random number generation
  --------------------------------