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Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.W32')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.W32 | 24 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32 index bd10187c32..b97a3d0c7a 100644 --- a/INSTALL.W32 +++ b/INSTALL.W32 @@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ get it all to work. See the trouble shooting section later on for if (when?) it goes wrong. + CAVEAT LECTOR + ------------- + + ### Default install and config paths + + ./Configure defaults to '/usr/local/ssl' as installation top. This is + suitable for Unix, but not for Windows, where this usually is a world + writable directory and therefore accessible for change by untrusted users. + It is therefore recommended to set your own --prefix or --openssldir to + some location that is not world writeable (see the example above) + Visual C++ ---------- @@ -104,7 +115,7 @@ --------------------- * Configure for building with Borland Builder: - > perl Configure BC-32 + > perl Configure BC-32 --prefix=c:\some\openssl\dir * Create the appropriate makefile > ms\do_nasm @@ -196,7 +207,7 @@ * Compile OpenSSL: - $ ./config + $ ./config --prefix=c:/some/openssl/dir [...] $ make [...] @@ -206,7 +217,11 @@ and openssl.exe application in apps directory. It is also possible to cross-compile it on Linux by configuring - with './Configure --cross-compile-prefix=i386-mingw32- mingw ...'. + like this: + + $ ./Configure --cross-compile-prefix=i386-mingw32- \ + --prefix=c:/some/openssl/dir mingw ... + 'make test' is naturally not applicable then. libcrypto.a and libssl.a are the static libraries. To use the DLLs, @@ -240,6 +255,9 @@ $ copy /b out32dll\libeay32.dll c:\openssl\bin $ copy /b out32dll\openssl.exe c:\openssl\bin + ("c:\openssl" should be whatever you specified to --prefix when + configuring the build) + Of course, you can choose another device than c:. C: is used here because that's usually the first (and often only) harddisk device. Note: in the modssl INSTALL.Win32, p: is used rather than c:. |