[openssl-users] shouldn't fipslink.pl include the fipscanister.lib in the link line?

Sam Roberts vieuxtech at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 20:24:27 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson <steve at openssl.org> wrote:
> First if you want to link to the OpenSSL DLLs then you don't need fipslink.pl
> at all: just link to them as you would any other application.

I'm working on Node.js, it links statically, so this isn't an option for me.

> If you do want to link against the static libraries then the easiest way to do
> that is to examine the contents of nt.mak, look for FIPSLINK and adapt the
> rule to your needs.

Where is nt.mak? Its mentioned in the User Guide but I didn't find it
in the github repo, or tarballs for openssl 1.0.2j or 1.1.0c, or
tarballs for openssl-fips 2.0.9, or 2.0.16

Thanks,
Sam


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