INSTALLATION ON THE WIN32 PLATFORM
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- Heres a few comments about building OpenSSL in Windows environments. Most of
- this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
+ Heres a few comments about building OpenSSL in Windows environments. Most
+ of this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
modification.
- You need Perl for Win32 (available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl)
+ You need Perl for Win32. Unless you will build on CygWin32, you will need
+ ActiveState Perl, available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl.
+ For CygWin32 users, there's more info in the CygWin32 section.
+
and one of the following C compilers:
* Visual C++
* Install CygWin32 (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
- * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path
+ * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path (recent Cygwin perl
+ (version 5.6.1-2 of the latter has been reported to work) or
+ ActivePerl)
* Run the CygWin bash shell
Installation
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- There's currently no real installation procedure for Win32. There are,
- however, some suggestions:
+ If you used the CygWin procedure above, you have already installed and
+ can skip this section. For all other procedures, there's currently no real
+ installation procedure for Win32. There are, however, some suggestions:
- do nothing. The include files are found in the inc32/ subdirectory,
all binaries are found in out32dll/ or out32/ depending if you built
malloc(), free() and realloc() as the application. However there are many
standard library functions used by OpenSSL that call malloc() internally
(e.g. fopen()), and OpenSSL cannot change these; so in general you cannot
- rely on CYRPTO_malloc_init() solving your problem, and you should
+ rely on CRYPTO_malloc_init() solving your problem, and you should
consistently use the multithreaded library.