[This document describes installation on the main supported operating
systems, currently the Linux/Unix family, OpenVMS and Windows.
- Installation on DOS (with djgpp), MacOS (before MacOS X)
- is described in INSTALL.DJGPP or INSTALL.MacOS, respectively.]
+ Installation on DOS (with djgpp) is described in INSTALL.DJGPP.]
To install OpenSSL, you will need:
header files
* a supported operating system
- For more details regarding specific platforms, there are these notes
- available:
+ For additional platform specific requirements and other details,
+ please read one of these:
* NOTES.VMS (OpenVMS)
- * NOTES.WIN (any Windows except for Windows CE)
+ * NOTES.WIN (any supported Windows)
Quick Start
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Don't build support for RFC3779 ("X.509 Extensions for IP
Addresses and AS Identifiers")
- no-sct
- ??
-
sctp
Build support for SCTP
- shared
- In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared
- libraries on platforms where it's supported. See "Note on
- shared libraries" below.
+ no-shared
+ Do not create shared libraries, only static ones. See "Note
+ on shared libraries" below.
no-sock
Don't build support for socket BIOs
malfunction with Perl). You may want increased verbosity, that
can be accomplished like this:
- $ HARNESS_VERBOSE=yes make test # Unix
+ $ make VERBOSE=1 test # Unix
- $ DEFINE HARNESS_VERBOSE YES
- $ mms test ! OpenVMS
+ $ mms /macro=(VERBOSE=1) test ! OpenVMS
- $ set HARNESS_VERBOSE=yes
- $ nmake test # Windows
+ $ nmake VERBOSE=1 test # Windows
If you want to run just one or a few specific tests, you can use
the make variable TESTS to specify them, like this:
And of course, you can combine (Unix example shown):
- $ HARNESS_VERBOSE=yes make TESTS='test_rsa test_dsa' test
+ $ make VERBOSE=1 TESTS='test_rsa test_dsa' test
You can find the list of available tests like this:
Note on shared libraries
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- Shared libraries have certain caveats. Binary backward compatibility
- can't be guaranteed before OpenSSL version 1.0. The only reason to
- use them would be to conserve memory on systems where several programs
- are using OpenSSL.
-
- For most systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
- build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems,
- the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving
- the option "shared" will get them created.
+ For most systems the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
+ build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems
+ the shared libraries will be created by default. This can be suppressed and
+ only static libraries created by using the "no-shared" option. On systems
+ where OpenSSL does not know how to build shared libraries the "no-shared"
+ option will be forced and only static libraries will be created.
Note on random number generation
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