Error building OpenSSL-1.1.1g

[Matt Caswell]

On 25/06/2020 18:32, Michael Wojcik wrote:
>> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf Of mhkelley2017 at gmail.com
>> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 11:54
> 
>> Error:  'ml64' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.
> 
> It's part of Visual C. The VC-WIN64A-masm configuration (Configurations/50-masm.conf) specifies it as the assembler.

Note that using masm to compile OpenSSL is no longer supported by us
(although it might still work).

Preferred is to use the VC-WIN64A target and the nasm compiler.

If you use the Developer Studio command prompt (64-bit) it should have
all the environment variables set up already to find the various VS tools.

Matt


> 
>> Building with Visual Studio  2019 Community
> 
> Maybe VS2019 Community doesn't include the assembler? I haven't looked. Or maybe it's part of some optional component?
> 
> In VS2017 Professional, which is what I have configured at the moment on this machine, it's in .../VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/HostX86/x64, thanks to VS's gratuitously complicated directory layout.
> 
> --
> Michael Wojcik
> Distinguished Engineer, Micro Focus
> 
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