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author | Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> | 2005-07-05 10:53:13 +0000 |
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committer | Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> | 2005-07-05 10:53:13 +0000 |
commit | e32ea818764f076bd75ae2c33b6319e8027141e8 (patch) | |
tree | a68e6d348d20ce4ed3d27c7cb1b360ee07d70104 | |
parent | ef8a18f49bc7eb91ab9dbf7bbb57d490a5463033 (diff) |
Mention Win64 support in CHANGES and throw in building instructions.
-rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.W32 | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.W64 | 66 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | TABLE | 4 |
4 files changed, 72 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changes between 0.9.7h and 0.9.8 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Add initial support for Win64, both IA64 and AMD64/x64 flavors. + [Andy Polyakov] + *) Add -utf8 command line and config file option to 'ca'. [Stefan <stf@udoma.org] diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32 index 0f6c302f0d..f18f249677 100644 --- a/INSTALL.W32 +++ b/INSTALL.W32 @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ---------------------------------- [Instructions for building for Windows CE can be found in INSTALL.WCE] + [Instructions for building for Win64 can be found in INSTALL.W64] 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 diff --git a/INSTALL.W64 b/INSTALL.W64 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9fa7a19205 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL.W64 @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ + + INSTALLATION ON THE WIN64 PLATFORM + ---------------------------------- + + Caveat lector + ------------- + + As of moment of this writing Win64 support is classified "initial" + for the following reasons. + + - No assembler modules are engaged upon initial 0.9.8 release. + - API might change within 0.9.8 life-span, *but* in a manner which + doesn't break backward binary compatibility. Or in other words, + application programs compiled with initial 0.9.8 headers will + be expected to work with future minor release .DLL without need + to re-compile, even if future minor release features modified API. + - Above mentioned API modifications have everything to do with + elimination of a number of limitations, which are normally + considered inherent to 32-bit platforms. Which in turn is why they + are treated as limitations on 64-bit platform such as Win64:-) + The current list comprises [but not necessarily limited to]: + + - null-terminated strings may not be longer than 2G-1 bytes, + longer strings are treated as zero-length; + - dynamically and *internally* allocated chunks can't be larger + than 2G-1 bytes; + - inability to encrypt/decrypt chunks of data larger than 4GB + [it's possibly to *hash* chunks of arbitrary size through]; + + Neither of these is actually big deal and hardly encountered + in real-life applications. + + Compiling procedure + ------------------- + + You will need Perl. You can run under Cygwin or you can download + ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl. + + You will need Microsoft Platform SDK, available for download at + http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/. As per + April 2005 Platform SDK is equipped with Win64 compilers, as well + as assemblers, but it might change in the future. + + To build for Win64/x64: + + > perl Configure VC-WIN64A + > ms\do_win64a + > nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak + > cd out32dll + > ..\ms\test + + To build for Win64/IA64: + + > perl Configure VC-WIN64I + > ms\do_win64i + > nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak + > cd out32dll + > ..\ms\test + + Naturally test-suite itself has to be executed on the target platform. + + Installation + ------------ + + TBD, for now see INSTALL.W32. + @@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ $unistd = $thread_cflag = $sys_id = WIN64A $lflags = -$bn_ops = SIXTY_FOUR_BIT EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN +$bn_ops = SIXTY_FOUR_BIT RC4_CHUNK_LL DES_INT EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN $cpuid_obj = $bn_obj = $des_obj = @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ $unistd = $thread_cflag = $sys_id = WIN64I $lflags = -$bn_ops = SIXTY_FOUR_BIT EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN +$bn_ops = SIXTY_FOUR_BIT RC4_CHUNK_LL DES_INT EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN $cpuid_obj = $bn_obj = $des_obj = |