2 NOTES FOR THE OPENVMS PLATFORM
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8 In addition to the requirements and instructions listed in INSTALL,
9 this are required as well:
11 * At least ODS-5 disk organization for source and build.
12 Installation can be done on any existing disk organization.
18 An ANSI C compiled is needed among other things. This means that
19 VAX C is not and will not be supported.
21 We have only tested with DEC C (a.k.a HP VMS C / VSI C), compiling
22 with a different ANSI C compiler may require some work.
24 Please avoid using C RTL feature logical names DECC$* when building
25 and testing OpenSSL. Most of all, they can be disruptive when
26 running the tests, as they affect the Perl interpreter.
32 MMS has certain limitations when it comes to line length, and DCL has
33 certain limitations when it comes to total command length. We do
34 what we can to mitigate, but there is the possibility that it's not
35 enough. Should you run into issues, a very simple solution is to set
36 yourself up a few logical names for the directory trees you're going
40 Checking the distribution
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43 There have been reports of places where the distribution didn't quite
44 get through, for example if you've copied the tree from a NFS-mounted
47 The easiest way to check if everything got through as it should is to
48 check for one of the following files:
50 [.crypto]opensslconf^.h.in
52 The best way to get a correct distribution is to download the gzipped
53 tar file from ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/, use GZIP -d to uncompress
54 it and VMSTAR to unpack the resulting tar file.
56 Gzip and VMSTAR are available here:
58 http://antinode.info/dec/index.html#Software
60 Should you need it, you can find UnZip for VMS here:
62 http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html