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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2016-02-09 10:17:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2016-02-09 15:11:38 +0000 |
| commit | 8b75603cc0ce8f4d9deb7218fbd905d3fc73a4c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 9419e3a58f34baba49af4693331fa638533e1c99 /INSTALL.WIN | |
| parent | 498abff0ae907dce08f37a1353976755e8c8120e (diff) | |
Provide documentation for auto-init/auto-deinit
Provide some man pages for auto-init/deinit. Also update the INSTALL
documentation for information on the new Configure options implemented as
part of this.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.WIN')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.WIN | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.WIN b/INSTALL.WIN index d57923886c..ceb8d1ee39 100644 --- a/INSTALL.WIN +++ b/INSTALL.WIN @@ -190,3 +190,19 @@ your application code small "shim" snippet, which provides glue between OpenSSL BIO layer and your compiler run-time. See the OPENSSL_Applink manual page for further details. + + Support for older Windows platforms + ----------------------------------- + + By default OpenSSL will use functions and capabilities of the Windows platform + only available in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 or later. It is possible + to enable support for older platforms by defining _WIN32_WINNT at Configure + time. + + > perl Configure VC-WIN32 --prefix=c:\some\openssl\dir -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 + + The value 0x0501 above corresponds to Windows XP which is the oldest supported + platform. The value 0x0600 corresponds to Windows Vista and Windows Server + 2008. Refer to the Windows documentation for other possible values. Note that + by forcing support for an older OpenSSL version this may mean less optimal + approaches are used instead. |