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This document describes installation on all supported operating
- systems (the Linux/Unix family, OpenVMS and Windows)
+ systems (the Unix/Linux family (which includes Mac OS/X), OpenVMS,
+ and Windows).
To install OpenSSL, you will need:
If you want to just get on with it, do:
- on Unix:
+ on Unix (again, this includes Mac OS/X):
$ ./config
$ make
put together one-size-fits-all instructions. You might
have to pass more flags or set up environment variables
to actually make it work. Android and iOS cases are
- discussed in corresponding Configurations/10-main.cf
- sections. But there are cases when this option alone is
+ discussed in corresponding Configurations/15-*.conf
+ files. But there are cases when this option alone is
sufficient. For example to build the mingw64 target on
Linux "--cross-compile-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32-"
works. Naturally provided that mingw packages are
"--cross-compile-prefix=mipsel-linux-gnu-" suffices
in such case. Needless to mention that you have to
invoke ./Configure, not ./config, and pass your target
- name explicitly.
+ name explicitly. Also, note that --openssldir refers
+ to target's file system, not one you are building on.
--debug
- Build OpenSSL with debugging symbols.
+ Build OpenSSL with debugging symbols and zero optimization
+ level.
--libdir=DIR
The name of the directory under the top of the installation
no-shared option.
no-asm
- Do not use assembler code. On some platforms a small amount
- of assembler code may still be used.
+ Do not use assembler code. This should be viewed as
+ debugging/trouble-shooting option rather than production.
+ On some platforms a small amount of assembler code may
+ still be used even with this option.
no-async
Do not build support for async operations.
enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128
Enable support for optimised implementations of some commonly
- used NIST elliptic curves. This is only supported on some
- platforms.
+ used NIST elliptic curves.
+ This is only supported on platforms:
+ - with little-endian storage of non-byte types
+ - that tolerate misaligned memory references
+ - where the compiler:
+ - supports the non-standard type __uint128_t
+ - defines the built-in macro __SIZEOF_INT128__
enable-egd
Build support for gathering entropy from EGD (Entropy
require additional system-dependent options! See "Note on
multi-threading" below.
- enable-tls13downgrade
- TODO(TLS1.3): Make this enabled by default and remove the
- option when TLSv1.3 is out of draft
- TLSv1.3 offers a downgrade protection mechanism. This is
- implemented but disabled by default. It should not typically
- be enabled except for testing purposes. Otherwise this could
- cause problems if a pre-RFC version of OpenSSL talks to an
- RFC implementation (it will erroneously be detected as a
- downgrade).
-
no-ts
Don't build Time Stamping Authority support.
Build without support for the specified algorithm, where
<alg> is one of: aria, bf, blake2, camellia, cast, chacha,
cmac, des, dh, dsa, ecdh, ecdsa, idea, md4, mdc2, ocb,
- poly1305, rc2, rc4, rmd160, scrypt, seed, siphash, sm3, sm4
- or whirlpool. The "ripemd" algorithm is deprecated and if
- used is synonymous with rmd160.
+ poly1305, rc2, rc4, rmd160, scrypt, seed, siphash, sm2, sm3,
+ sm4 or whirlpool. The "ripemd" algorithm is deprecated and
+ if used is synonymous with rmd160.
-Dxxx, -Ixxx, -Wp, -lxxx, -Lxxx, -Wl, -rpath, -R, -framework, -static
These system specific options will be recognised and
Windows, and as a comma separated list of
libraries on VMS.
RANLIB The library archive indexer.
- RC The Windows resources manipulator.
- RCFLAGS Flags for the Windows reources manipulator.
+ RC The Windows resource compiler.
+ RCFLAGS Flags for the Windows resource compiler.
RM The command to remove files and directories.
These cannot be mixed with compiling / linking flags given
BUILDFILE
Use a different build file name than the platform default
- ("Makefile" on Unixly platforms, "makefile" on native Windows,
+ ("Makefile" on Unix-like platforms, "makefile" on native Windows,
"descrip.mms" on OpenVMS). This requires that there is a
corresponding build file template. See Configurations/README
for further information.
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
+ On most POSIX 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
The seeding method can be configured using the --with-rand-seed option,
which can be used to specify a comma separated list of seed methods.
However in most cases OpenSSL will choose a suitable default method,
- so it is not necessary to explicitely provide this option. Note also
+ so it is not necessary to explicitly provide this option. Note also
that not all methods are available on all platforms.
I) On operating systems which provide a suitable randomness source (in