Add a small note saying the 'debug' option should come before the platform in

[openssl.git] / INSTALL.W32

diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32
index c62d7f75cbf8c60850bbf78a0a0197e4f2ab515c..8b22d9d05f06aa63a5227c9e43ed59319db8b41c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.W32
+++ b/INSTALL.W32
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@
  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.
@@ -94,11 +95,8 @@
  You can also build a static version of the library using the Makefile
  ms\nt.mak
 
- Borland C++ builder 3 and 4
- ---------------------------
-
- There are two alternatives.  With Borland C++ Builder, Borland make and nasm,
- you can build with optimized assembler by doing the following:
+ Borland C++ builder 5
+ ---------------------
 
  * Configure for building with Borland Builder:
    > perl Configure BC-32
@@ -109,8 +107,8 @@
  * Build
    > make -f ms\bcb.mak
 
- The other (older) alternative builds using GNU make and doesn't use the
- optimized assembler code.  You use it by doing the following:
+ Borland C++ builder 3 and 4
+ ---------------------------
 
  * Setup PATH. First must be GNU make then bcb4/bin 
 
@@ -155,17 +153,17 @@
  GNU C (Cygwin)
  --------------
 
- 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
- than other W32 makes that are based on a single makefile approach.
- Cygwin implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is
- contrasted to Mingw32 which links dynamically to msvcrt.dll or
- crtdll.dll.
+ Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running
+ on NT 4.0, Windows 9x, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
+ Consequently, a make of OpenSSL with Cygwin is closer to a GNU
+ bash environment such as Linux than to other W32 makes which are
+ based on a single makefile approach. 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 Cygwin:
 
- * Install Cygwin (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
+ * Install Cygwin (see http://cygwin.com/)
 
  * 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
@@ -191,13 +189,9 @@
  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 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 Cygwin distribution.  This causes a
+ "bc" is not provided in older Cygwin distribution.  This causes a
  non-fatal error in "make test" but is otherwise harmless.  If
- desired, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change.
+ desired and needed, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change.
 
 
  Installation