[openssl-users] Unable to build with dmake

[Richard Levitte]

In message <TY1PR06MB0942DC7B7183B1872BD8D9469E610 at TY1PR06MB0942.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com> on Wed, 4 Jan 2017 11:14:48 +0000, Rajat Srivastava <rajat.srivastava01 at nagarro.com> said:

rajat.srivastava01> Hi,
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> I am working on windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> I downloaded OpenSSL version openssl-1.1.0c and installed Active Perl
rajat.srivastava01> v5.24.0 built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> I installed Text::Template, dmake and MinGW (not sure if I should have
rajat.srivastava01> installed MinGW)
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> I ran command "perl configure VC-WIN32" which ran successfully.
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> When I run dmake command it says:
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> "dmake.exe: makefile: line 51: Error: -- Expecting macro or rule defn,
rajat.srivastava01> found neither"
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> Line 51 in make file is:
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> !IF "$(DESTDIR)" != ""
rajat.srivastava01> 
rajat.srivastava01> Please let me know how to resolve this error.

Try with nmake, which comes with Visual Studio.

(I now noticed we haven't made nmake a requirement, while we expect
everyone to use it with the VC-* config targets.  We should be more
explicit about this)

Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
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