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2 INSTALLATION ON THE UNIX PLATFORM
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5 [Installation on Windows, OpenVMS and MacOS (before MacOS X) is described
6 in INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS and INSTALL.MacOS.]
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8 To install OpenSSL, you will need:
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abb3e53f 10 * Perl 5
73bfb9ad 11 * an ANSI C compiler
80611577 12 * a supported Unix operating system
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14 Quick Start
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4109b97c 17 If you want to just get on with it, do:
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b1fe6b43 19 $ ./config
4109b97c 20 $ make
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21 $ make test
22 $ make install
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d872c55c 24 [If any of these steps fails, see section Installation in Detail below.]
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26 This will build and install OpenSSL in the default location, which is (for
27 historical reasons) /usr/local/ssl. If you want to install it anywhere else,
462ba4f6 28 run config like this:
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462ba4f6 30 $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
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33 Configuration Options
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36 There are several options to ./config to customize the build:
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38 --prefix=DIR Install in DIR/bin, DIR/lib, DIR/include/openssl.
39 Configuration files used by OpenSSL will be in DIR/ssl
40 or the directory specified by --openssldir.
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42 --openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified,
43 the library files and binaries are also installed there.
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45 rsaref Build with RSADSI's RSAREF toolkit (this assumes that
46 librsaref.a is in the library search path).
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48 no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded
49 applications.
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51 threads Build with support for multi-threaded applications.
52 This will usually require additional system-dependent options!
53 See "Note on multi-threading" below.
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b1fe6b43 55 no-asm Do not use assembler code.
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57 386 Use the 80386 instruction set only (the default x86 code is
58 more efficient, but requires at least a 486).
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60 no-<cipher> Build without the specified cipher (bf, cast, des, dh, dsa,
61 hmac, md2, md5, mdc2, rc2, rc4, rc5, rsa, sha).
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62 The crypto/<cipher> directory can be removed after running
63 "make depend".
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65 -Dxxx, -lxxx, -Lxxx, -fxxx, -Kxxx These system specific options will
66 be passed through to the compiler to allow you to
67 define preprocessor symbols, specify additional libraries,
68 library directories or other compiler options.
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71 Installation in Detail
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4109b97c 74 1a. Configure OpenSSL for your operation system automatically:
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b1fe6b43 76 $ ./config [options]
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4109b97c 78 This guesses at your operating system (and compiler, if necessary) and
b1fe6b43 79 configures OpenSSL based on this guess. Run ./config -t to see
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80 if it guessed correctly. If you want to use a different compiler, you
81 are cross-compiling for another platform, or the ./config guess was
82 wrong for other reasons, go to step 1b. Otherwise go to step 2.
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84 On some systems, you can include debugging information as follows:
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86 $ ./config -d [options]
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c9f06e7f 88 1b. Configure OpenSSL for your operating system manually
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90 OpenSSL knows about a range of different operating system, hardware and
91 compiler combinations. To see the ones it knows about, run
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4109b97c 93 $ ./Configure
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95 Pick a suitable name from the list that matches your system. For most
96 operating systems there is a choice between using "cc" or "gcc". When
97 you have identified your system (and if necessary compiler) use this name
98 as the argument to ./Configure. For example, a "linux-elf" user would
99 run:
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b1fe6b43 101 $ ./Configure linux-elf [options]
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103 If your system is not available, you will have to edit the Configure
73bfb9ad 104 program and add the correct configuration for your system. The
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105 generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
106 systems.
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108 Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.org and
109 defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from
80611577 110 crypto/opensslconf.h.in).
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462ba4f6 112 2. Build OpenSSL by running:
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4109b97c 114 $ make
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116 This will build the OpenSSL libraries (libcrypto.a and libssl.a) and the
117 OpenSSL binary ("openssl"). The libraries will be built in the top-level
118 directory, and the binary will be in the "apps" directory.
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120 If "make" fails, please report the problem to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>
121 (note that your message will be forwarded to a public mailing list).
4d524e10 122 Include the output of "make report" in your message.
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436a376b 124 [If you encounter assembler error messages, try the "no-asm"
b82ccbb7 125 configuration option as an immediate fix.]
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127 Compiling parts of OpenSSL with gcc and others with the system
128 compiler will result in unresolved symbols on some systems.
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462ba4f6 130 3. After a successful build, the libraries should be tested. Run:
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4109b97c 132 $ make test
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134 If a test fails, try removing any compiler optimization flags from
135 the CFLAGS line in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". Please
136 send a bug report to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>, including the
4d524e10 137 output of "make report".
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462ba4f6 139 4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with
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4109b97c 141 $ make install
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4109b97c 143 This will create the installation directory (if it does not exist) and
33d50ef6 144 then the following subdirectories:
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146 certs Initially empty, this is the default location
147 for certificate files.
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148 man/man1 Manual pages for the 'openssl' command line tool
149 man/man3 Manual pages for the libraries (very incomplete)
7e05db95 150 misc Various scripts.
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151 private Initially empty, this is the default location
152 for private key files.
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f4e723f3 154 If you didn't choose a different installation prefix, the
33d50ef6 155 following additional subdirectories will be created:
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157 bin Contains the openssl binary and a few other
158 utility programs.
159 include/openssl Contains the header files needed if you want to
160 compile programs with libcrypto or libssl.
33d50ef6 161 lib Contains the OpenSSL library files themselves.
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163 Package builders who want to configure the library for standard
164 locations, but have the package installed somewhere else so that
165 it can easily be packaged, can use
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167 $ make INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/package-root install
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7e05db95 169 (or specify "--install_prefix=/tmp/package-root" as a configure
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170 option). The specified prefix will be prepended to all
171 installation target filenames.
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174 NOTE: The header files used to reside directly in the include
175 directory, but have now been moved to include/openssl so that
176 OpenSSL can co-exist with other libraries which use some of the
177 same filenames. This means that applications that use OpenSSL
178 should now use C preprocessor directives of the form
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180 #include <openssl/ssl.h>
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182 instead of "#include <ssl.h>", which was used with library versions
183 up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b.
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185 If you install a new version of OpenSSL over an old library version,
186 you should delete the old header files in the include directory.
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188 Compatibility issues:
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190 * COMPILING existing applications
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192 To compile an application that uses old filenames -- e.g.
193 "#include <ssl.h>" --, it will usually be enough to find
194 the CFLAGS definition in the application's Makefile and
195 add a C option such as
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197 -I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl
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199 to it.
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201 But don't delete the existing -I option that points to
202 the ..../include directory! Otherwise, OpenSSL header files
203 could not #include each other.
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205 * WRITING applications
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207 To write an application that is able to handle both the new
208 and the old directory layout, so that it can still be compiled
209 with library versions up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b without bothering
210 the user, you can proceed as follows:
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212 - Always use the new filename of OpenSSL header files,
213 e.g. #include <openssl/ssl.h>.
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215 - Create a directory "incl" that contains only a symbolic
216 link named "openssl", which points to the "include" directory
217 of OpenSSL.
218 For example, your application's Makefile might contain the
219 following rule, if OPENSSLDIR is a pathname (absolute or
220 relative) of the directory where OpenSSL resides:
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222 incl/openssl:
223 -mkdir incl
224 cd $(OPENSSLDIR) # Check whether the directory really exists
225 -ln -s `cd $(OPENSSLDIR); pwd`/include incl/openssl
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227 You will have to add "incl/openssl" to the dependencies
228 of those C files that include some OpenSSL header file.
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230 - Add "-Iincl" to your CFLAGS.
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232 With these additions, the OpenSSL header files will be available
233 under both name variants if an old library version is used:
234 Your application can reach them under names like <openssl/foo.h>,
235 while the header files still are able to #include each other
236 with names of the form <foo.h>.
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239 Note on multi-threading
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242 For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what compiler options
243 are needed to generate a library that is suitable for multi-threaded
244 applications. On these systems, support for multi-threading is enabled
245 by default; use the "no-threads" option to disable (this should never be
246 necessary).
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248 On other systems, to enable support for multi-threading, you will have
33d50ef6 249 to specify at least two options: "threads", and a system-dependent option.
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250 (The latter is "-D_REENTRANT" on various systems.) The default in this
251 case, obviously, is not to include support for multi-threading (but
252 you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message
253 from the Configure script.)
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