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2 INSTALLATION ON THE WIN32 PLATFORM
3 ----------------------------------
4
5 [Instructions for building for Windows CE can be found in INSTALL.WCE]
6
7 Heres a few comments about building OpenSSL in Windows environments.  Most
8 of this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
9 modification.
10
11 You need Perl for Win32.  Unless you will build on Cygwin, you will need
12 ActiveState Perl, available from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl.
13
14 and one of the following C compilers:
15
16  * Visual C++
17  * Borland C
18  * GNU C (Cygwin or MinGW)
19
20 If you are compiling from a tarball or a CVS snapshot then the Win32 files
21 may well be not up to date. This may mean that some "tweaking" is required to
22 get it all to work. See the trouble shooting section later on for if (when?)
23 it goes wrong.
24
25 Visual C++
26 ----------
27
28 If you want to compile in the assembly language routines with Visual C++ then
29 you will need an assembler. This is worth doing because it will result in
30 faster code: for example it will typically result in a 2 times speedup in the
31 RSA routines. Currently the following assemblers are supported:
32
33  * Microsoft MASM (aka "ml")
34  * Free Netwide Assembler NASM.
35
36 MASM is distributed with most versions of VC++. For the versions where it is
37 not included in VC++, it is also distributed with some Microsoft DDKs, for
38 example the Windows NT 4.0 DDK and the Windows 98 DDK. If you do not have
39 either of these DDKs then you can just download the binaries for the Windows
40 98 DDK and extract and rename the two files XXXXXml.exe and XXXXXml.err, to
41 ml.exe and ml.err and install somewhere on your PATH. Both DDKs can be
42 downloaded from the Microsoft developers site www.msdn.com.
43
44 NASM is freely available. Version 0.98 was used during testing: other versions
45 may also work. It is available from many places, see for example:
46 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/nasm/binaries/win32/
47 The NASM binary nasmw.exe needs to be installed anywhere on your PATH.
48
49 Firstly you should run Configure (to build a FIPS-certified variant of
50 OpenSSL, add the option "fips"):
51
52 > perl Configure VC-WIN32
53
54 Next you need to build the Makefiles and optionally the assembly language
55 files (to build a FIPS-certified variant of OpenSSL, add the argument "fips"):
56
57 - If you are using MASM then run:
58
59   > ms\do_masm
60
61 - If you are using NASM then run:
62
63   > ms\do_nasm
64
65 - If you don't want to use the assembly language files at all then run:
66
67   > ms\do_ms
68
69 If you get errors about things not having numbers assigned then check the
70 troubleshooting section: you probably won't be able to compile it as it
71 stands.
72
73 Then from the VC++ environment at a prompt do:
74
75 > nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
76
77 If all is well it should compile and you will have some DLLs and executables
78 in out32dll. If you want to try the tests then do:
79 
80 > cd out32dll
81 > ..\ms\test
82
83 Tweaks:
84
85 There are various changes you can make to the Win32 compile environment. By
86 default the library is not compiled with debugging symbols. If you add 'debug'
87 to the mk1mf.pl lines in the do_* batch file then debugging symbols will be
88 compiled in. Note that mk1mf.pl expects the platform to be the last argument
89 on the command line, so 'debug' must appear before that, as all other options.
90
91 The default Win32 environment is to leave out any Windows NT specific
92 features.
93
94 If you want to enable the NT specific features of OpenSSL (currently only the
95 logging BIO) follow the instructions above but call the batch file do_nt.bat
96 instead of do_ms.bat.
97
98 You can also build a static version of the library using the Makefile
99 ms\nt.mak
100
101 Borland C++ builder 5
102 ---------------------
103
104 * Configure for building with Borland Builder (to build a FIPS-certified
105   variant of OpenSSL, add the option "fips"):
106   > perl Configure BC-32
107
108 * Create the appropriate makefile (to build a FIPS-certified variant of
109   OpenSSL, add the argument "fips")
110   > ms\do_nasm
111
112 * Build
113   > make -f ms\bcb.mak
114
115 Borland C++ builder 3 and 4
116 ---------------------------
117
118 * Setup PATH. First must be GNU make then bcb4/bin 
119
120 * Run ms\bcb4.bat
121
122 * Run make:
123   > make -f bcb.mak
124
125 GNU C (Cygwin)
126 --------------
127
128 Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running
129 on NT 4.0, Windows 9x, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
130 Consequently, a make of OpenSSL with Cygwin is closer to a GNU
131 bash environment such as Linux than to other the other Win32
132 makes.
133
134 Cygwin implements a Posix/Unix runtime system (cygwin1.dll).
135 It is also possible to create Win32 binaries that only use the
136 Microsoft C runtime system (msvcrt.dll or crtdll.dll) using
137 MinGW. MinGW can be used in the Cygwin development environment
138 or in a standalone setup as described in the following section.
139
140 To build OpenSSL using Cygwin:
141
142 * Install Cygwin (see http://cygwin.com/)
143
144 * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path. Both Cygwin perl
145   (5.6.1-2 or newer) and ActivePerl work.
146
147 * Run the Cygwin bash shell
148
149 * $ tar zxvf openssl-x.x.x.tar.gz
150   $ cd openssl-x.x.x
151
152   To build the Cygwin version of OpenSSL:
153
154   $ ./config
155   [...]
156   $ make
157   [...]
158   $ make test
159   $ make install
160
161   This will create a default install in /usr/local/ssl.
162
163   To build the MinGW version (native Windows) in Cygwin:
164
165   $ ./Configure mingw
166   [...]
167   $ make
168   [...]
169   $ make test
170   $ make install
171
172 Cygwin Notes:
173
174 "make test" and normal file operations may fail in directories
175 mounted as text (i.e. mount -t c:\somewhere /home) due to Cygwin
176 stripping of carriage returns. To avoid this ensure that a binary
177 mount is used, e.g. mount -b c:\somewhere /home.
178
179 "bc" is not provided in older Cygwin distribution.  This causes a
180 non-fatal error in "make test" but is otherwise harmless.  If
181 desired and needed, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change.
182
183 GNU C (MinGW)
184 -------------
185
186 * Compiler installation:
187
188   MinGW is available from http://www.mingw.org. Run the installer and
189   set the MinGW bin directory to the PATH in "System Properties" or
190   autoexec.bat.
191
192 * Compile OpenSSL:
193
194   > ms\mingw32
195
196   This will create the library and binaries in out. In case any problems
197   occur, try
198   > ms\mingw32 no-asm
199   instead.
200   If you want to build a FIPS-certified variant of OpenSSL, add the argument
201   "fips"
202
203   libcrypto.a and libssl.a are the static libraries. To use the DLLs,
204   link with libeay32.a and libssl32.a instead.
205
206   See troubleshooting if you get error messages about functions not having
207   a number assigned.
208
209 * You can now try the tests:
210
211   > cd out
212   > ..\ms\test
213
214
215 Installation
216 ------------
217
218 If you used the Cygwin procedure above, you have already installed and
219 can skip this section.  For all other procedures, there's currently no real
220 installation procedure for Win32.  There are, however, some suggestions:
221
222    - do nothing.  The include files are found in the inc32/ subdirectory,
223      all binaries are found in out32dll/ or out32/ depending if you built
224      dynamic or static libraries.
225
226    - do as is written in INSTALL.Win32 that comes with modssl:
227
228	$ md c:\openssl 
229	$ md c:\openssl\bin
230	$ md c:\openssl\lib
231	$ md c:\openssl\include
232	$ md c:\openssl\include\openssl
233	$ copy /b inc32\openssl\*       c:\openssl\include\openssl
234	$ copy /b out32dll\ssleay32.lib c:\openssl\lib
235	$ copy /b out32dll\libeay32.lib c:\openssl\lib
236	$ copy /b out32dll\ssleay32.dll c:\openssl\bin
237	$ copy /b out32dll\libeay32.dll c:\openssl\bin
238	$ copy /b out32dll\openssl.exe  c:\openssl\bin
239
240      Of course, you can choose another device than c:.  C: is used here
241      because that's usually the first (and often only) harddisk device.
242      Note: in the modssl INSTALL.Win32, p: is used rather than c:.
243
244
245 Troubleshooting
246 ---------------
247
248 Since the Win32 build is only occasionally tested it may not always compile
249 cleanly.  If you get an error about functions not having numbers assigned
250 when you run ms\do_ms then this means the Win32 ordinal files are not up to
251 date. You can do:
252
253 > perl util\mkdef.pl crypto ssl update
254
255 then ms\do_XXX should not give a warning any more. However the numbers that
256 get assigned by this technique may not match those that eventually get
257 assigned in the CVS tree: so anything linked against this version of the
258 library may need to be recompiled.
259
260 If you get errors about unresolved symbols there are several possible
261 causes.
262
263 If this happens when the DLL is being linked and you have disabled some
264 ciphers then it is possible the DEF file generator hasn't removed all
265 the disabled symbols: the easiest solution is to edit the DEF files manually
266 to delete them. The DEF files are ms\libeay32.def ms\ssleay32.def.
267
268 Another cause is if you missed or ignored the errors about missing numbers
269 mentioned above.
270
271 If you get warnings in the code then the compilation will halt.
272
273 The default Makefile for Win32 halts whenever any warnings occur. Since VC++
274 has its own ideas about warnings which don't always match up to other
275 environments this can happen. The best fix is to edit the file with the
276 warning in and fix it. Alternatively you can turn off the halt on warnings by
277 editing the CFLAG line in the Makefile and deleting the /WX option.
278
279 You might get compilation errors. Again you will have to fix these or report
280 them.
281
282 One final comment about compiling applications linked to the OpenSSL library.
283 If you don't use the multithreaded DLL runtime library (/MD option) your
284 program will almost certainly crash because malloc gets confused -- the
285 OpenSSL DLLs are statically linked to one version, the application must
286 not use a different one.  You might be able to work around such problems
287 by adding CRYPTO_malloc_init() to your program before any calls to the
288 OpenSSL libraries: This tells the OpenSSL libraries to use the same
289 malloc(), free() and realloc() as the application.  However there are many
290 standard library functions used by OpenSSL that call malloc() internally
291 (e.g. fopen()), and OpenSSL cannot change these; so in general you cannot
292 rely on CRYPTO_malloc_init() solving your problem, and you should
293 consistently use the multithreaded library.
294