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1 2 INSTALLATION ON THE UNIX PLATFORM 3 --------------------------------- 4 5 [Installation on DOS (with djgpp), Windows, OpenVMS, MacOS (before MacOS X) 6 and NetWare is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS, 7 INSTALL.MacOS and INSTALL.NW. 8 9 This document describes installation on operating systems in the Unix 10 family.] 11 12 To install OpenSSL, you will need: 13 14 * make 15 * Perl 5 16 * an ANSI C compiler 17 * a development environment in form of development libraries and C 18 header files 19 * a supported Unix operating system 20 21 Quick Start 22 ----------- 23 24 If you want to just get on with it, do: 25 26 $ ./config 27 $ make 28 $ make test 29 $ make install 30 31 [If any of these steps fails, see section Installation in Detail below.] 32 33 This will build and install OpenSSL in the default location, which is (for 34 historical reasons) /usr/local/ssl. If you want to install it anywhere else, 35 run config like this: 36 37 $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl 38 39 40 Configuration Options 41 --------------------- 42 43 There are several options to ./config (or ./Configure) to customize 44 the build: 45 46 --prefix=DIR Install in DIR/bin, DIR/lib, DIR/include/openssl. 47 Configuration files used by OpenSSL will be in DIR/ssl 48 or the directory specified by --openssldir. 49 50 --openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified, 51 the library files and binaries are also installed there. 52 53 no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded 54 applications. 55 56 threads Build with support for multi-threaded applications. 57 This will usually require additional system-dependent options! 58 See "Note on multi-threading" below. 59 60 no-zlib Don't try to build with support for zlib compression and 61 decompression. 62 63 zlib Build with support for zlib compression/decompression. 64 65 zlib-dynamic Like "zlib", but has OpenSSL load the zlib library dynamically 66 when needed. This is only supported on systems where loading 67 of shared libraries is supported. This is the default choice. 68 69 no-shared Don't try to create shared libraries. 70 71 shared In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared 72 libraries on platforms where it's supported. See "Note on 73 shared libraries" below. 74 75 no-asm Do not use assembler code. 76 77 386 In 32-bit x86 builds, when generating assembly modules, 78 use the 80386 instruction set only (the default x86 code 79 is more efficient, but requires at least a 486). Note: 80 This doesn't affect code generated by compiler, you're 81 likely to complement configuration command line with 82 suitable compiler-specific option. 83 84 no-sse2 Exclude SSE2 code paths from 32-bit x86 assembly modules. 85 Normally SSE2 extension is detected at run-time, but the 86 decision whether or not the machine code will be executed 87 is taken solely on CPU capability vector. This means that 88 if you happen to run OS kernel which does not support SSE2 89 extension on Intel P4 processor, then your application 90 might be exposed to "illegal instruction" exception. 91 There might be a way to enable support in kernel, e.g. 92 FreeBSD kernel can be compiled with CPU_ENABLE_SSE, and 93 there is a way to disengage SSE2 code paths upon application 94 start-up, but if you aim for wider "audience" running 95 such kernel, consider no-sse2. Both the 386 and 96 no-asm options imply no-sse2. 97 98 no-<cipher> Build without the specified cipher (bf, cast, des, dh, dsa, 99 hmac, md2, md5, mdc2, rc2, rc4, rc5, rsa, sha). 100 The crypto/<cipher> directory can be removed after running 101 "make depend". 102 103 -Dxxx, -lxxx, -Lxxx, -fxxx, -mXXX, -Kxxx These system specific options will 104 be passed through to the compiler to allow you to 105 define preprocessor symbols, specify additional libraries, 106 library directories or other compiler options. It might be 107 worth noting that some compilers generate code specifically 108 for processor the compiler currently executes on. This is 109 not necessarily what you might have in mind, since it might 110 be unsuitable for execution on other, typically older, 111 processor. Consult your compiler documentation. 112 113 -DHAVE_CRYPTODEV Enable the BSD cryptodev engine even if we are not using 114 BSD. Useful if you are running ocf-linux or something 115 similar. Once enabled you can also enable the use of 116 cryptodev digests, which is usually slower unless you have 117 large amounts data. Use -DUSE_CRYPTODEV_DIGESTS to force 118 it. 119 120 Installation in Detail 121 ---------------------- 122 123 1a. Configure OpenSSL for your operation system automatically: 124 125 $ ./config [options] 126 127 This guesses at your operating system (and compiler, if necessary) and 128 configures OpenSSL based on this guess. Run ./config -t to see 129 if it guessed correctly. If you want to use a different compiler, you 130 are cross-compiling for another platform, or the ./config guess was 131 wrong for other reasons, go to step 1b. Otherwise go to step 2. 132 133 On some systems, you can include debugging information as follows: 134 135 $ ./config -d [options] 136 137 1b. Configure OpenSSL for your operating system manually 138 139 OpenSSL knows about a range of different operating system, hardware and 140 compiler combinations. To see the ones it knows about, run 141 142 $ ./Configure 143 144 Pick a suitable name from the list that matches your system. For most 145 operating systems there is a choice between using "cc" or "gcc". When 146 you have identified your system (and if necessary compiler) use this name 147 as the argument to ./Configure. For example, a "linux-elf" user would 148 run: 149 150 $ ./Configure linux-elf [options] 151 152 If your system is not available, you will have to edit the Configure 153 program and add the correct configuration for your system. The 154 generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit 155 systems. 156 157 Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.org and 158 defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from 159 crypto/opensslconf.h.in). 160 161 2. Build OpenSSL by running: 162 163 $ make 164 165 This will build the OpenSSL libraries (libcrypto.a and libssl.a) and the 166 OpenSSL binary ("openssl"). The libraries will be built in the top-level 167 directory, and the binary will be in the "apps" directory. 168 169 If the build fails, look at the output. There may be reasons 170 for the failure that aren't problems in OpenSSL itself (like 171 missing standard headers). If you are having problems you can 172 get help by sending an email to the openssl-users email list (see 173 https://www.openssl.org/community/mailinglists.html for details). If 174 it is a bug with OpenSSL itself, please open an issue on GitHub, at 175 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues. Please review the existing 176 ones first; maybe the bug was already reported or has already been 177 fixed. 178 179 (If you encounter assembler error messages, try the "no-asm" 180 configuration option as an immediate fix.) 181 182 Compiling parts of OpenSSL with gcc and others with the system 183 compiler will result in unresolved symbols on some systems. 184 185 3. After a successful build, the libraries should be tested. Run: 186 187 $ make test 188 189 If a test fails, look at the output. There may be reasons for 190 the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like a missing 191 or malfunctioning bc). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, 192 try removing any compiler optimization flags from the CFLAG line 193 in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". To report a bug please open an 194 issue on GitHub, at https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues. 195 196 4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with 197 198 $ make install 199 200 This will create the installation directory (if it does not exist) and 201 then the following subdirectories: 202 203 certs Initially empty, this is the default location 204 for certificate files. 205 man/man1 Manual pages for the 'openssl' command line tool 206 man/man3 Manual pages for the libraries (very incomplete) 207 misc Various scripts. 208 private Initially empty, this is the default location 209 for private key files. 210 211 If you didn't choose a different installation prefix, the 212 following additional subdirectories will be created: 213 214 bin Contains the openssl binary and a few other 215 utility programs. 216 include/openssl Contains the header files needed if you want to 217 compile programs with libcrypto or libssl. 218 lib Contains the OpenSSL library files themselves. 219 220 Use "make install_sw" to install the software without documentation, 221 and "install_docs_html" to install HTML renditions of the manual 222 pages. 223 224 Package builders who want to configure the library for standard 225 locations, but have the package installed somewhere else so that 226 it can easily be packaged, can use 227 228 $ make INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/package-root install 229 230 (or specify "--install_prefix=/tmp/package-root" as a configure 231 option). The specified prefix will be prepended to all 232 installation target filenames. 233 234 235 NOTE: The header files used to reside directly in the include 236 directory, but have now been moved to include/openssl so that 237 OpenSSL can co-exist with other libraries which use some of the 238 same filenames. This means that applications that use OpenSSL 239 should now use C preprocessor directives of the form 240 241 #include <openssl/ssl.h> 242 243 instead of "#include <ssl.h>", which was used with library versions 244 up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b. 245 246 If you install a new version of OpenSSL over an old library version, 247 you should delete the old header files in the include directory. 248 249 Compatibility issues: 250 251 * COMPILING existing applications 252 253 To compile an application that uses old filenames -- e.g. 254 "#include <ssl.h>" --, it will usually be enough to find 255 the CFLAGS definition in the application's Makefile and 256 add a C option such as 257 258 -I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl 259 260 to it. 261 262 But don't delete the existing -I option that points to 263 the ..../include directory! Otherwise, OpenSSL header files 264 could not #include each other. 265 266 * WRITING applications 267 268 To write an application that is able to handle both the new 269 and the old directory layout, so that it can still be compiled 270 with library versions up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b without bothering 271 the user, you can proceed as follows: 272 273 - Always use the new filename of OpenSSL header files, 274 e.g. #include <openssl/ssl.h>. 275 276 - Create a directory "incl" that contains only a symbolic 277 link named "openssl", which points to the "include" directory 278 of OpenSSL. 279 For example, your application's Makefile might contain the 280 following rule, if OPENSSLDIR is a pathname (absolute or 281 relative) of the directory where OpenSSL resides: 282 283 incl/openssl: 284 -mkdir incl 285 cd $(OPENSSLDIR) # Check whether the directory really exists 286 -ln -s `cd $(OPENSSLDIR); pwd`/include incl/openssl 287 288 You will have to add "incl/openssl" to the dependencies 289 of those C files that include some OpenSSL header file. 290 291 - Add "-Iincl" to your CFLAGS. 292 293 With these additions, the OpenSSL header files will be available 294 under both name variants if an old library version is used: 295 Your application can reach them under names like <openssl/foo.h>, 296 while the header files still are able to #include each other 297 with names of the form <foo.h>. 298 299 300 Note on multi-threading 301 ----------------------- 302 303 For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what compiler options 304 are needed to generate a library that is suitable for multi-threaded 305 applications. On these systems, support for multi-threading is enabled 306 by default; use the "no-threads" option to disable (this should never be 307 necessary). 308 309 On other systems, to enable support for multi-threading, you will have 310 to specify at least two options: "threads", and a system-dependent option. 311 (The latter is "-D_REENTRANT" on various systems.) The default in this 312 case, obviously, is not to include support for multi-threading (but 313 you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message 314 from the Configure script.) 315 316 317 Note on shared libraries 318 ------------------------ 319 320 Shared libraries have certain caveats. Binary backward compatibility 321 can't be guaranteed before OpenSSL version 1.0. The only reason to 322 use them would be to conserve memory on systems where several programs 323 are using OpenSSL. 324 325 For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to 326 build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems, 327 the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving 328 the option "shared" will get them created. This method supports Makefile 329 targets for shared library creation, like linux-shared. Those targets 330 can currently be used on their own just as well, but this is expected 331 to change in future versions of OpenSSL. 332 333 Note on random number generation 334 -------------------------------- 335 336 Availability of cryptographically secure random numbers is required for 337 secret key generation. OpenSSL provides several options to seed the 338 internal PRNG. If not properly seeded, the internal PRNG will refuse 339 to deliver random bytes and a "PRNG not seeded error" will occur. 340 On systems without /dev/urandom (or similar) device, it may be necessary 341 to install additional support software to obtain random seed. 342 Please check out the manual pages for RAND_add(), RAND_bytes(), RAND_egd(), 343 and the FAQ for more information. 344 345 Note on support for multiple builds 346 ----------------------------------- 347 348 OpenSSL is usually built in its source tree. Unfortunately, this doesn't 349 support building for multiple platforms from the same source tree very well. 350 It is however possible to build in a separate tree through the use of lots 351 of symbolic links, which should be prepared like this: 352 353 mkdir -p objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`" 354 cd objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`" 355 (cd $OPENSSL_SOURCE; find . -type f) | while read F; do 356 mkdir -p `dirname $F` 357 rm -f $F; ln -s $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F $F 358 echo $F '->' $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F 359 done 360 make -f Makefile.org clean 361 362 OPENSSL_SOURCE is an environment variable that contains the absolute (this 363 is important!) path to the OpenSSL source tree. 364 365 Also, operations like 'make update' should still be made in the source tree. 366