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| author | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2000-02-27 01:15:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2000-02-27 01:15:25 +0000 |
| commit | 94de04192d54cc8b3d53a6409993e99926441b00 (patch) | |
| tree | c43916d4d1bc65b2fd3e9d773cddcf415f6ba253 /INSTALL.W32 | |
| parent | 1070e0e2eeae712bc864b8f1506c91406488ea31 (diff) | |
Fix so Win32 assembly language works with MASM.
Add info about where to get MASM.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.W32')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.W32 | 24 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32 index 6d09a22310..e9d469106c 100644 --- a/INSTALL.W32 +++ b/INSTALL.W32 @@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ * Microsoft MASM (aka "ml") * Free Netwide Assembler NASM. - MASM was I believe distributed in the past with VC++ and it is also part of - the MSDN SDKs. It is no longer distributed as part of VC++ and can be hard - to get hold of. It can be purchased: see Microsoft's site for details at: - http://www.microsoft.com/ + MASM was at one point distributed with VC++. It is now distributed with some + Microsoft DDKs, for example the Windows NT 4.0 DDK and the Windows 98 DDK. If you + do not have either of these DDKs then you can just download the binaries for the + Windows 98 DDK and extract and rename the two files XXXXXml.exe and XXXXXml.err, + to ml.exe and ml.err and install somewhere on your PATH. Both DDKs can be downloaded + from the Microsoft developers site www.msdn.com. NASM is freely available. Version 0.98 was used during testing: other versions may also work. It is available from many places, see for example: @@ -145,12 +147,16 @@ assigned in the CVS tree: so anything linked against this version of the library may need to be recompiled. - If you get errors about unresolved externals then this means that either you - didn't read the note above about functions not having numbers assigned or - someone forgot to add a function to the header file. + If you get errors about unresolved symbols there are several possible + causes. - In this latter case check out the header file to see if the function is - defined in the header file. + If this happens when the DLL is being linked and you have disabled some + ciphers then it is possible the DEF file generator hasn't removed all + the disabled symbols: the easiest solution is to edit the DEF files manually + to delete them. The DEF files are ms\libeay32.def ms\ssleay32.def. + + Another cause is if you missed or ignored the errors about missing numbers + mentioned above. If you get warnings in the code then the compilation will halt. |