Updated error codes for FIPS library.

[openssl.git] / INSTALL.W32

diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32
index a0886b3d77499e9757e50b6952e61f5613ebd7cf..d23c4baf625e783bda70830629d019cb835b66a9 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.W32
+++ b/INSTALL.W32
@@ -185,6 +185,15 @@
    required. Run the installers and do whatever magic they say it takes
    to start MSYS bash shell with GNU tools on its PATH.
 
    required. Run the installers and do whatever magic they say it takes
    to start MSYS bash shell with GNU tools on its PATH.
 

+   N.B. Since source tar-ball can contain symbolic links, it's essential
+   that you use accompanying MSYS tar to unpack the source. It will
+   either handle them in one way or another or fail to extract them,
+   which does the trick too. Latter means that you may safely ignore all
+   "cannot create symlink" messages, as they will be "re-created" at
+   configure stage by copying corresponding files. Alternative programs
+   were observed to create empty files instead, which results in build
+   failure.
+

  * Compile OpenSSL:
 
    $ ./config
  * Compile OpenSSL:
 
    $ ./config