X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=7eaa8147c3b8563699d5e51ed9f3428ee6bd9c14;hp=ea9b8a3844e19368c132fbd6b7f4a85d754ab1d4;hb=c2222c2ea255aa0d9580dcaf9232b809559fba92;hpb=a652ffc4b5748a22b291c230f1a9347b0d410ebc diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ea9b8a3844..7eaa8147c3 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -7,8 +7,11 @@ To install OpenSSL, you will need: + * make * Perl 5 * an ANSI C compiler + * a development environment in form of development libraries and C + header files * a supported Unix operating system Quick Start @@ -43,9 +46,6 @@ --openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified, the library files and binaries are also installed there. - rsaref Build with RSADSI's RSAREF toolkit (this assumes that - librsaref.a is in the library search path). - no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded applications. @@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ This will usually require additional system-dependent options! See "Note on multi-threading" below. + no-zlib Don't try to build with support for zlib compression and + decompression. + + zlib Build with support for zlib compression/decompression. + + zlib-dynamic Like "zlib", but has OpenSSL load the zlib library dynamically + when needed. This is only supported on systems where loading + of shared libraries is supported. This is the default choice. + no-shared Don't try to create shared libraries. shared In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared @@ -125,7 +134,7 @@ directory, and the binary will be in the "apps" directory. If "make" fails, look at the output. There may be reasons for - the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like missing + the failure that aren't problems in OpenSSL itself (like missing standard headers). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, please report the problem to (note that your message will be forwarded to a public mailing list). Include the @@ -269,6 +278,11 @@ Note on shared libraries ------------------------ + Shared library is currently an experimental feature. The only reason to + have them would be to conserve memory on systems where several program + are using OpenSSL. Binary backward compatibility can't be guaranteed + before OpenSSL version 1.0. + For some 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