[openssl-dev] Make under windows

dcruette at qualitesys.com dcruette at qualitesys.com
Fri May 6 13:10:31 UTC 2016


Hello

I am not expert of those tool configurations / installations.
Is it possible to update the INSTALL file for windows + mingw ?

Thanks for your help.

Didier

Le 05.05.2016 09:54, Andy Polyakov a écrit :
>> If you configure for mingw, you need to do so from inside a MSYS/MingW
>> shell.  If you want to build inside a cmd shell, you have to configure
>> natively,
> 
> In addition a "matching perl" is likely to be required. I mean one can
> start MSYS shell and have ActiveState Perl first on the $PATH and that
> is not directly supported combination. It might work, but if it 
> doesn't,
> we don't want to figure out why exactly. So one also better ensures 
> that
> MSYS shell calls MSYS perl. But one should keep in mind that "matching"
> applies to build environment rather than configuration target. For
> example one can compile for mingw not only from MSYS shell, but even
> from within Cygwin and Linux. Probably most correct definition of
> "matching" is "one that matches make utility".


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