[openssl-users] Customize Windows library names

[Thomas J. Hruska]

On 9/15/2016 3:17 AM, Kim Gräsman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking at integrating OpenSSL 1.1 in our tree, and I noticed the
> Windows build system now produces decorated lib names.
>
> The general pattern seems to be lib<name>_<ver>[-<arch>].lib where
> <arch> is only appended for 64-bit builds.
>
> We'd prefer a naked lib name, at least for import libs (the DLL names
> are not important to us, as long as the import lib binds to the right
> name).
>
> Is there a supported way of dumbing down the names of libcrypto and
> libssl? I can resort to a private patch, but it'd be nice if Configure
> could be convinced to keep it simple out of the box.
>
> Thanks,
> - Kim

The precompiled binary installer variants do this already.  If you are 
using default builds, then that's possibly an option.

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