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2 INSTALLATION ON THE WIN32 PLATFORM
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5 Heres a few comments about building OpenSSL in Windows environments. Most of
6 this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
657e60fa 7 modification.
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982baa7b 9 You need Perl for Win32 (available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl)
31a674d8 10 and one of the following C compilers:
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12 * Visual C++
13 * Borland C
14 * GNU C (Mingw32 or Cygwin32)
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16 If you want to compile in the assembly language routines with Visual C++ then
17 you will need an assembler. This is worth doing because it will result in
18 faster code: for example it will typically result in a 2 times speedup in the
19 RSA routines. Currently the following assemblers are supported:
20
21 * Microsoft MASM (aka "ml")
22 * Free Netwide Assembler NASM.
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94de0419 24 MASM was at one point distributed with VC++. It is now distributed with some
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25 Microsoft DDKs, for example the Windows NT 4.0 DDK and the Windows 98 DDK. If
26 you do not have either of these DDKs then you can just download the binaries
27 for the Windows 98 DDK and extract and rename the two files XXXXXml.exe and
28 XXXXXml.err, to ml.exe and ml.err and install somewhere on your PATH. Both
29 DDKs can be downloaded from the Microsoft developers site www.msdn.com.
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31 NASM is freely available. Version 0.98 was used during testing: other versions
32 may also work. It is available from many places, see for example:
33 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/nasm/binaries/win32/
34 The NASM binary nasmw.exe needs to be installed anywhere on your PATH.
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36 If you are compiling from a tarball or a CVS snapshot then the Win32 files
37 may well be not up to date. This may mean that some "tweaking" is required to
38 get it all to work. See the trouble shooting section later on for if (when?)
39 it goes wrong.
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41 Visual C++
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b617a5be 44 Firstly you should run Configure:
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31a674d8 46 > perl Configure VC-WIN32
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48 Next you need to build the Makefiles and optionally the assembly language
5067cce5 49 files:
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5067cce5 51 - If you are using MASM then run:
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5067cce5 53 > ms\do_masm
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5067cce5 55 - If you are using NASM then run:
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5067cce5 57 > ms\do_nasm
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5067cce5 59 - If you don't want to use the assembly language files at all then run:
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5067cce5 61 > ms\do_ms
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4109b97c 63 If you get errors about things not having numbers assigned then check the
0a9d53e9 64 troubleshooting section: you probably won't be able to compile it as it
4109b97c 65 stands.
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4109b97c 67 Then from the VC++ environment at a prompt do:
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4109b97c 69 > nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
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71 If all is well it should compile and you will have some DLLs and executables
72 in out32dll. If you want to try the tests then do:
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74 > cd out32dll
75 > ..\ms\test
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77 Tweaks:
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79 There are various changes you can make to the Win32 compile environment. By
80 default the library is not compiled with debugging symbols. If you add 'debug'
81 to the mk1mk.pl lines in the do_* batch file then debugging symbols will be
82 compiled in.
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84 The default Win32 environment is to leave out any Windows NT specific
85 features.
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87 If you want to enable the NT specific features of OpenSSL (currently only the
88 logging BIO) follow the instructions above but call the batch file do_nt.bat
89 instead of do_ms.bat.
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91 You can also build a static version of the library using the Makefile
92 ms\nt.mak
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94 Borland C++ builder 3 and 4
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97 * Setup PATH. First must be GNU make then bcb4/bin
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99 * Run ms\bcb4.bat
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101 * Run make:
102 > make -f bcb.mak
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104 GNU C (Mingw32)
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107 To build OpenSSL, you need the Mingw32 package and GNU make.
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7d5d27b9 109 * Compiler installation:
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111 Mingw32 is available from <ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/
112 gnu-win32/mingw32/gcc-2.95.2/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.exe>. GNU make is at
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113 <ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/janjaap/mingw32/binaries/
114 make-3.76.1.zip>. Install both of them in C:\egcs-1.1.2 and run
115 C:\egcs-1.1.2\mingw32.bat to set the PATH.
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7d5d27b9 117 * Compile OpenSSL:
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fee2dc8e 119 > ms\mingw32
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121 This will create the library and binaries in out. In case any problems
122 occur, try
123 > ms\mingw32 no-asm
124 instead.
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126 libcrypto.a and libssl.a are the static libraries. To use the DLLs,
127 link with libeay32.a and libssl32.a instead.
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129 See troubleshooting if you get error messages about functions not having
130 a number assigned.
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7d5d27b9 132 * You can now try the tests:
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134 > cd out
135 > ..\ms\test
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137 GNU C (CygWin32)
138 ---------------
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140 CygWin32 provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running on
141 NT 4.0, Windows 9x and Windows 2000. Consequently, a make of OpenSSL
142 with CygWin is closer to a GNU bash environment such as Linux rather
143 than other W32 makes that are based on a single makefile approach.
144 CygWin32 implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is
145 contrasted to Mingw32 which links dynamically to msvcrt.dll or
146 crtdll.dll.
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148 To build OpenSSL using CygWin32:
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150 * Install CygWin32 (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
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152 * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path
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154 * Run the CygWin bash shell
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156 * $ tar zxvf openssl-x.x.x.tar.gz
157 $ cd openssl-x.x.x
158 $ ./Configure no-threads CygWin32
159 [...]
160 $ make
161 [...]
162 $ make test
163 $ make install
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165 This will create a default install in /usr/local/ssl.
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167 CygWin32 Notes:
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169 "make test" and normal file operations may fail in directories
170 mounted as text (i.e. mount -t c:\somewhere /home) due to CygWin
171 stripping of carriage returns. To avoid this ensure that a binary
172 mount is used, e.g. mount -b c:\somewhere /home.
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174 As of version 1.1.1 CygWin32 is relatively unstable in its handling
175 of cr/lf issues. These make procedures succeeded with versions 1.1 and
176 the snapshot 20000524 (Slow!).
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178 "bc" is not provided in the CygWin32 distribution. This causes a
179 non-fatal error in "make test" but is otherwise harmless. If
180 desired, GNU bc can be built with CygWin32 without change.
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183 Installation
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186 There's currently no real installation procedure for Win32. There are,
187 however, some suggestions:
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189 - do nothing. The include files are found in the inc32/ subdirectory,
190 all binaries are found in out32dll/ or out32/ depending if you built
191 dynamic or static libraries.
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193 - do as is written in INSTALL.Win32 that comes with modssl:
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195 $ md c:\openssl
196 $ md c:\openssl\bin
197 $ md c:\openssl\lib
198 $ md c:\openssl\include
199 $ md c:\openssl\include\openssl
200 $ copy /b inc32\* c:\openssl\include\openssl
201 $ copy /b out32dll\ssleay32.lib c:\openssl\lib
202 $ copy /b out32dll\libeay32.lib c:\openssl\lib
203 $ copy /b out32dll\ssleay32.dll c:\openssl\bin
204 $ copy /b out32dll\libeay32.dll c:\openssl\bin
205 $ copy /b out32dll\openssl.exe c:\openssl\bin
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207 Of course, you can choose another device than c:. C: is used here
208 because that's usually the first (and often only) harddisk device.
209 Note: in the modssl INSTALL.Win32, p: is used rather than c:.
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212 Troubleshooting
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215 Since the Win32 build is only occasionally tested it may not always compile
216 cleanly. If you get an error about functions not having numbers assigned
217 when you run ms\do_ms then this means the Win32 ordinal files are not up to
218 date. You can do:
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4109b97c 220 > perl util\mkdef.pl crypto ssl update
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b617a5be 222 then ms\do_XXX should not give a warning any more. However the numbers that
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223 get assigned by this technique may not match those that eventually get
224 assigned in the CVS tree: so anything linked against this version of the
225 library may need to be recompiled.
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227 If you get errors about unresolved symbols there are several possible
228 causes.
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230 If this happens when the DLL is being linked and you have disabled some
231 ciphers then it is possible the DEF file generator hasn't removed all
232 the disabled symbols: the easiest solution is to edit the DEF files manually
233 to delete them. The DEF files are ms\libeay32.def ms\ssleay32.def.
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235 Another cause is if you missed or ignored the errors about missing numbers
236 mentioned above.
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4109b97c 238 If you get warnings in the code then the compilation will halt.
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240 The default Makefile for Win32 halts whenever any warnings occur. Since VC++
241 has its own ideas about warnings which don't always match up to other
242 environments this can happen. The best fix is to edit the file with the
243 warning in and fix it. Alternatively you can turn off the halt on warnings by
244 editing the CFLAG line in the Makefile and deleting the /WX option.
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246 You might get compilation errors. Again you will have to fix these or report
247 them.
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249 One final comment about compiling applications linked to the OpenSSL library.
250 If you don't use the multithreaded DLL runtime library (/MD option) your
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251 program will almost certainly crash because malloc gets confused -- the
252 OpenSSL DLLs are statically linked to one version, the application must
253 not use a different one. You might be able to work around such problems
254 by adding CRYPTO_malloc_init() to your program before any calls to the
255 OpenSSL libraries: This tells the OpenSSL libraries to use the same
256 malloc(), free() and realloc() as the application. However there are many
257 standard library functions used by OpenSSL that call malloc() internally
258 (e.g. fopen()), and OpenSSL cannot change these; so in general you cannot
259 rely on CYRPTO_malloc_init() solving your problem, and you should
260 consistently use the multithreaded library.