Issue with install after using `perl Configure` to set --prefix and --openssldir

[Tomas Mraz]

Hello,

you have to use "--openssldir=C:\OpenSSLInstallDir\CommonFiles\SSL"

Regards,

Tomas Mraz, OpenSSL

On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 16:50 +0000, BENTLEY Thom via openssl-users
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All, 
>  
> I get an error running `perl Configure --openssldir
> "C:\OpenSSLInstallDir\CommonFiles\SSL" --prefix=C:\OpenSSLInstallDir
> VC-WIN64A`
> target already defined - C:\OpenSSLInstallDir\Common Files\SSL
> (offending arg: VC-WIN64A)
>  
> If I remove --openssldir "C:\OpenSSLInstallDir\CommonFiles\SSL", the
> configure happens fine but the install fails.
> Here are the steps after the reconfigure.
> nmake clean
> nmake 
> nmake test
> nmake install.
>  
> The install shows this error:
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe"
> ".\util\mkdir-p.pl" "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SSL\certs"' :
> return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>  
> What step did I miss or is this a bug?  I thought I could override
> the common files location with –openssldir but that doesn’t seem to
> work.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
>  
>  
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Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL