INSTALLATION ON THE UNIX PLATFORM
---------------------------------
- [Installation on Windows, OpenVMS and MacOS (before MacOS X) is described
- in INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS and INSTALL.MacOS.]
+ [Installation on DOS (with djgpp), Windows, OpenVMS and MacOS (before MacOS X)
+ is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS and INSTALL.MacOS.
+ This document describes installation on operating systems in the Unix
+ family.]
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
--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.
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
generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
systems.
- Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.org and
+ Configure creates the file Makefile from Makefile.org and
defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from
crypto/opensslconf.h.in).
OpenSSL binary ("openssl"). The libraries will be built in the top-level
directory, and the binary will be in the "apps" directory.
- If "make" fails, please report the problem to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>
- (note that your message will be forwarded to a public mailing list).
- Include the output of "make report" in your message.
+ If "make" fails, look at the output. There may be reasons for
+ 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 <openssl-bugs@openssl.org> (note that your
+ message will be recorded in the request tracker publicly readable
+ via http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html and will be forwarded to a
+ public mailing list). Include the output of "make report" in your message.
+ Please check out the request tracker. Maybe the bug was already
+ reported or has already been fixed.
[If you encounter assembler error messages, try the "no-asm"
configuration option as an immediate fix.]
$ make test
- If a test fails, try removing any compiler optimization flags from
- the CFLAGS line in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". Please
- send a bug report to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>, including the
- output of "make report".
+ If a test fails, look at the output. There may be reasons for
+ the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like a missing
+ or malfunctioning bc). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself,
+ try removing any compiler optimization flags from the CFLAG line
+ in Makefile and run "make clean; make". Please send a bug
+ report to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>, including the output of
+ "make report" in order to be added to the request tracker at
+ http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html.
4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with
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
targets for shared library creation, like linux-shared. Those targets
can currently be used on their own just as well, but this is expected
to change in future versions of OpenSSL.
+
+ Note on random number generation
+ --------------------------------
+
+ Availability of cryptographically secure random numbers is required for
+ secret key generation. OpenSSL provides several options to seed the
+ internal PRNG. If not properly seeded, the internal PRNG will refuse
+ to deliver random bytes and a "PRNG not seeded error" will occur.
+ On systems without /dev/urandom (or similar) device, it may be necessary
+ to install additional support software to obtain random seed.
+ Please check out the manual pages for RAND_add(), RAND_bytes(), RAND_egd(),
+ and the FAQ for more information.
+
+ Note on support for multiple builds
+ -----------------------------------
+
+ OpenSSL is usually built in it's source tree. Unfortunately, this doesn't
+ support building for multiple platforms from the same source tree very well.
+ It is however possible to build in a separate tree through the use of lots
+ of symbolic links, which should be prepared like this:
+
+ mkdir -p objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`"
+ cd objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`"
+ (cd $OPENSSL_SOURCE; find . -type f) | while read F; do
+ mkdir -p `dirname $F`
+ rm -f $F; ln -s $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F $F
+ echo $F '->' $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F
+ done
+ make -f Makefile.org clean
+
+ OPENSSL_SOURCE is an environment variable that contains the absolute (this
+ is important!) path to the OpenSSL source tree.
+
+ Also, operations like 'make update' should still be made in the source tree.