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

[Tomas Mraz]

You seem to have space instead of = between --openssldir and the path.

And yeah, try to experiment with the doublequotes if that does not
help. I do not know the exact rules for these in the Windows shell.

Tomas Mraz, OpenSSL

On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 17:46 +0000, BENTLEY Thom wrote:
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> Thanks Tomas.
> I tried that but got the error I specified in my post.  Unless you
> are saying I need quotes around the entire–openssldir option.
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> From:Tomas Mraz <tomas at openssl.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 1:29 PM
> To: BENTLEY Thom <Thom.BENTLEY at 3ds.com>, "openssl-users at openssl.org"
> <openssl-users at openssl.org>
> Subject: Re: Issue with install after using `perl Configure` to set -
> -prefix and --openssldir
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> 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
> 
> Hello,
>  
> you have to use "--openssldir=C:\OpenSSLInstallDir\CommonFiles\SSL"
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> Regards,
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> Tomas Mraz, OpenSSL
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> On Thu, 2024-06-27 at 16:50 +0000, BENTLEY Thom via openssl-users
> wrote:
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> > 
> > 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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