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[Installation on DOS (with djgpp), Windows, OpenVMS, MacOS (before MacOS X)
- and NetWare is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS,
+ and NetWare is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.WIN, INSTALL.VMS,
INSTALL.MacOS and INSTALL.NW.
This document describes installation on operating systems in the Unix
To install OpenSSL, you will need:
* make
- * Perl 5 with core modules (see 'Note on Perl' further down)
+ * Perl 5 with core modules (please read README.PERL)
+ * The perl module Text::Template (please read README.PERL)
* an ANSI C compiler
* a development environment in form of development libraries and C
header files
--openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified,
the library files and binaries are also installed there.
+ no-autoalginit Don't automatically load all supported ciphers and digests.
+ Typically OpenSSL will make available all of its supported
+ ciphers and digests. For a statically linked application this
+ may be undesirable if small executable size is an objective.
+ This only affects libcrypto. Ciphers and digests will have to be
+ loaded manually using EVP_add_cipher() and EVP_add_digest() if
+ this option is used.
+
+ no-autoerrinit Don't automatically load all libcrypto/libssl error strings.
+ Typically OpenSSL will automatically load human readable error
+ strings. For a statically linked application this may be
+ undesirable if small executable size is an objective.
+
no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded
applications.
with names of the form <foo.h>.
- Note on Perl
- ------------
-
- For our scripts, we rely quite a bit on Perl, and increasingly on
- some core Perl modules. These Perl modules are part of the Perl
- source, so if you build Perl on your own, you should be set.
-
- However, if you install Perl as binary packages, the outcome might
- differ, and you may have to check that you do get the core modules
- installed properly. We do not claim to know them all, but experience
- has told us the following:
-
- - on Linux distributions based on Debian, the package 'perl' will
- install the core Perl modules as well, so you will be fine.
- - on Linux distributions based on RPMs, you will need to install
- 'perl-core' rather than just 'perl'.
-
- It is highly recommended that you have at least Perl version 5.12
- installed.
-
Note on multi-threading
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you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message
from the Configure script.)
+ OpenSSL provides built-in support for two threading models: pthreads (found on
+ most UNIX/Linux systems), and Windows threads. No other threading models are
+ supported. If your platform does not provide pthreads or Windows threads then
+ you should Configure with the "no-threads" option.
Note on shared libraries
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