INSTALLATION ON THE WIN32 PLATFORM
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- 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
+ 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.
- You need Perl for Win32 -- either ActiveState Perl, available from
- http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl, or the perl that comes with
- Cygwin. Version 5.6.1-2 of the latter has been reported to work,
- although earlier versions might cause `./Configure' to fail.
+ You need Perl for Win32. Unless you will build on Cygwin, you will need
+ ActiveState Perl, available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl.
+ For Cygwin users, there's more info in the Cygwin section.
and one of the following C compilers:
* Visual C++
* Borland C
- * GNU C (Mingw32 or Cygwin32)
+ * GNU C (Mingw32 or Cygwin)
If you want to compile in the assembly language routines with Visual C++ then
you will need an assembler. This is worth doing because it will result in
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 mk1mk.pl lines in the do_* batch file then debugging symbols will be
+ to the mk1mf.pl lines in the do_* batch file then debugging symbols will be
compiled in.
The default Win32 environment is to leave out any Windows NT specific
> cd out
> ..\ms\test
- GNU C (CygWin32)
- ---------------
+ GNU C (Cygwin)
+ --------------
- CygWin32 provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running on
+ Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running on
NT 4.0, Windows 9x and Windows 2000. Consequently, a make of OpenSSL
- with CygWin is closer to a GNU bash environment such as Linux rather
+ with Cygwin is closer to a GNU bash environment such as Linux rather
than other W32 makes that are based on a single makefile approach.
- CygWin32 implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is
+ Cygwin implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is
contrasted to Mingw32 which links dynamically to msvcrt.dll or
crtdll.dll.
- To build OpenSSL using CygWin32:
+ To build OpenSSL using Cygwin:
- * Install CygWin32 (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
+ * Install Cygwin (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
- * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path (recent Cygwin perl or
+ * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path (recent Cygwin perl
+ (version 5.6.1-2 of the latter has been reported to work) or
ActivePerl)
- * Run the CygWin bash shell
+ * Run the Cygwin bash shell
* $ tar zxvf openssl-x.x.x.tar.gz
$ cd openssl-x.x.x
- $ ./Configure no-threads CygWin32
+ $ ./config
[...]
$ make
[...]
This will create a default install in /usr/local/ssl.
- CygWin32 Notes:
+ Cygwin Notes:
"make test" and normal file operations may fail in directories
- mounted as text (i.e. mount -t c:\somewhere /home) due to CygWin
+ mounted as text (i.e. mount -t c:\somewhere /home) due to Cygwin
stripping of carriage returns. To avoid this ensure that a binary
mount is used, e.g. mount -b c:\somewhere /home.
- As of version 1.1.1 CygWin32 is relatively unstable in its handling
+ As of version 1.1.1 Cygwin is relatively unstable in its handling
of cr/lf issues. These make procedures succeeded with versions 1.1 and
the snapshot 20000524 (Slow!).
- "bc" is not provided in the CygWin32 distribution. This causes a
+ "bc" is not provided in the Cygwin distribution. This causes a
non-fatal error in "make test" but is otherwise harmless. If
- desired, GNU bc can be built with CygWin32 without change.
+ desired, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change.
Installation
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- There's currently no real installation procedure for Win32. There are,
- however, some suggestions:
+ If you used the Cygwin procedure above, you have already installed and
+ can skip this section. For all other procedures, there's currently no real
+ installation procedure for Win32. There are, however, some suggestions:
- do nothing. The include files are found in the inc32/ subdirectory,
all binaries are found in out32dll/ or out32/ depending if you built
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