[openssl-users] mingw 64-bit build of 1.1.0e

[sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au]

-----Original Message----- 
From: sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 10:21 PM
To: openssl-users at openssl.org
Subject: [openssl-users] mingw 64-bit build of 1.1.0e

> In the msys2 shell, I run:
>
> ./config no-shared 
> zlib -IC:/_64/msys_630/1.0/local/include -LC:/_64/msys_630/1.0/local/lib --prefix=C:/_64/msys_630/1.0/local 
> && make && make test && make install
>
> Works beautifully ... except that libssl.a and libcrypto.a turn out to be 
> 32-bit builds !!
> That is, the built library works fine with the same vendor's 32-bit 
> compiler (gcc version 6.3.0 (i686-posix-sjlj-rev1, Built by MinGW-W64 
> project)), but the x64 compiler that built the damned things regards them 
> as incompatible.
>
> I'm thinking that I just need to specify an -m64 switch in there. How do I 
> do that ?

After another couple of hours fossicking about, I did it by firstly setting 
the CC environment variable to 'gcc -m64'. (I would normally do that by 
specifying 'CC="gcc -m64"' as part of the ./config command, but ./config 
found that to be objectionable, so I pre-set it in a separate command prior 
to running ./config.)
And I added '-m64' as a ./config arg.

I don't know if *both* of those steps were necessary, but it did the trick.

Disconcertingly, the summary at the end of ./config still announces 
"THIRTY_TWO_BIT mode" but, at the end of the build, I definitely have the 
X64 libraries that I wanted.

Cheers,
Rob