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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9cbdfd7d33 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +# Installation of SSLeay. +# It depends on perl for a few bits but those steps can be skipped and +# the top level makefile edited by hand + +# When bringing the SSLeay distribution back from the evil intel world +# of Windows NT, do the following to make it nice again under unix :-) +# You don't normally need to run this. +sh util/fixNT.sh # This only works for NT now - eay - 21-Jun-1996 + +# If you have perl, and it is not in /usr/local/bin, you can run +perl util/perlpath.pl /new/path +# and this will fix the paths in all the scripts. DO NOT put +# /new/path/perl, just /new/path. The build +# environment always run scripts as 'perl perlscript.pl' but some of the +# 'applications' are easier to usr with the path fixed. + +# Edit crypto/cryptlib.h, tools/c_rehash, and Makefile.ssl +# to set the install locations if you don't like +# the default location of /usr/local/ssl +# Do this by running +perl util/ssldir.pl /new/ssl/home +# if you have perl, or by hand if not. + +# If things have been stuffed up with the sym links, run +make -f Makefile.ssl links +# This will re-populate lib/include with symlinks and for each +# directory, link Makefile to Makefile.ssl + +# Setup the machine dependent stuff for the top level makefile +# and some select .h files +# If you don't have perl, this will bomb, in which case just edit the +# top level Makefile.ssl +./Configure 'system type' + +# The 'Configure' command contains default configuration parameters +# for lots of machines. Configure edits 5 lines in the top level Makefile +# It modifies the following values in the following files +Makefile.ssl CC CFLAG EX_LIBS BN_MULW +crypto/des/des.h DES_LONG +crypto/des/des_locl.h DES_PTR +crypto/md/md2.h MD2_INT +crypto/rc4/rc4.h RC4_INT +crypto/rc4/rc4_enc.c RC4_INDEX +crypto/rc2/rc2.h RC2_INT +crypto/bf/bf_locl.h BF_INT +crypto/idea/idea.h IDEA_INT +crypto/bn/bn.h BN_LLONG (and defines one of SIXTY_FOUR_BIT, + SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG, THIRTY_TWO_BIT, + SIXTEEN_BIT or EIGHT_BIT) +Please remember that all these files are actually copies of the file with +a .org extention. So if you change crypto/des/des.h, the next time +you run Configure, it will be runover by a 'configured' version of +crypto/des/des.org. So to make the changer the default, change the .org +files. The reason these files have to be edited is because most of +these modifications change the size of fundamental data types. +While in theory this stuff is optional, it often makes a big +difference in performance and when using assember, it is importaint +for the 'Bignum bits' match those required by the assember code. +A warning for people using gcc with sparc cpu's. Gcc needs the -mv8 +flag to use the hardware multiply instruction which was not present in +earlier versions of the sparc CPU. I define it by default. If you +have an old sparc, and it crashes, try rebuilding with this flag +removed. I am leaving this flag on by default because it makes +things run 4 times faster :-) + +# clean out all the old stuff +make clean + +# Do a make depend only if you have the makedepend command installed +# This is not needed but it does make things nice when developing. +make depend + +# make should build everything +make + +# fix up the demo certificate hash directory if it has been stuffed up. +make rehash + +# test everything +make test + +# install the lot +make install + +# It is worth noting that all the applications are built into the one +# program, ssleay, which is then has links from the other programs +# names to it. +# The applicatons can be built by themselves, just don't define the +# 'MONOLITH' flag. So to build the 'enc' program stand alone, +gcc -O2 -Iinclude apps/enc.c apps/apps.c libcrypto.a + +# Other useful make options are +make makefile.one +# which generate a 'makefile.one' file which will build the complete +# SSLeay distribution with temp. files in './tmp' and 'installable' files +# in './out' + +# Have a look at running +perl util/mk1mf.pl help +# this can be used to generate a single makefile and is about the only +# way to generate makefiles for windows. + +# There is actually a final way of building SSLeay. +gcc -O2 -c -Icrypto -Iinclude crypto/crypto.c +gcc -O2 -c -Issl -Iinclude ssl/ssl.c +# and you now have the 2 libraries as single object files :-). +# If you want to use the assember code for your particular platform +# (DEC alpha/x86 are the main ones, the other assember is just the +# output from gcc) you will need to link the assember with the above generated +# object file and also do the above compile as +gcc -O2 -DBN_ASM -c -Icrypto -Iinclude crypto/crypto.c + +This last option is probably the best way to go when porting to another +platform or building shared libraries. It is not good for development so +I don't normally use it. + +To build shared libararies under unix, have a look in shlib, basically +you are on your own, but it is quite easy and all you have to do +is compile 2 (or 3) files. + +For mult-threading, have a read of doc/threads.doc. Again it is quite +easy and normally only requires some extra callbacks to be defined +by the application. +The examples for solaris and windows NT/95 are in the mt directory. + +have fun + +eric 25-Jun-1997 |