From: Neil Horman Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:05:22 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Update NOTES-WINDOWS for typos/grammar X-Git-Tag: openssl-3.4.0-alpha1~394 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=901e27982c6bcd5ac94e455d2ef87e80398cd474;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git Update NOTES-WINDOWS for typos/grammar Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/24450) --- diff --git a/NOTES-WINDOWS.md b/NOTES-WINDOWS.md index f19bcab4f64..d39bb90918e 100644 --- a/NOTES-WINDOWS.md +++ b/NOTES-WINDOWS.md @@ -125,10 +125,10 @@ Administrator" before running `nmake install`. The other solution is, of course, to choose a different set of directories by using `--prefix` and `--openssldir` when configuring. -Note that, on Windows platforms (both 32 and 64 bit), the above build time +Note that, on Windows platforms (both 32 and 64 bit), the above build-time defaults can be overridden by registry keys. This is done because it is common -practice for windows based installers to allow users to place the installation -tree at various locations not defined at build time. The following keys: +practice for windows-based installers to allow users to place the installation +tree at an arbitrary location not defined at build-time. The following keys: `\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\OpenSSL--\OPENSSLDIR` `\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\OpenSSL--\ENGINESDIR` @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ values for OPENSSLDIR, ENGINESDIR and MODULESDIR respectively. To enable the reading of registry keys from windows builds, add `-DOPENSSL_WINCTX=`to the Configure command line. This define is used -at build time to construct library build specific registry key paths of the +at build-time to construct library build specific registry key paths of the format: `\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432node\OpenSSL--` Where `` is the semantic major.minor.patch version of the library being