I'm not a fan of Windows platform, and cannot offer support for it myself. But 
I see no harm if somebody is willing to maintain this as a part of the project. 
Certainly after 5.6.3 is out.

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> On Jul 4, 2015, at 06:03, Jean-Pierre Münch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Am 04.07.2015 um 00:16 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
>> I have some experience in Inno installers. We can provide an Installer for 
>> windows that:
>> 
>> * provides the headers, in say, C:\CryptoPP\include
>> * provides the static and dynamic libraries in subfolders of, say, 
>> C:\CryptoPP\lib
>> * installs cryptest.exe in %SYSTEM32%
>> * installs the data files in the %APPDATA% folder (needs the DataDir patch 
>> at http://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/DataDir)
>> 
>> Would this be useful for folks who just want things to work without building 
>> the library and managing project settings?
>> 
> Personally, I wouldn't use this. For libraries I always prefer building from 
> source (if possible), so I can make sure it inter-ops with my compiler 
> version. The current process of building Crypto++     is already quite 
> comfortable. You extract it somewhere, open VS, and hit "Build" and it just 
> builds and is fully working (in a few minutes).
> 
> So, as a experiment I think we can offer it and see how many people use it as 
> soon as we have an "official" release (5.7.0 / 5.6.3) finished.
>> I bring it up because Shining Light's Win32OpenSSL is fairly popular. (But 
>> OpenSSL on Windows is a little tougher than Crypto++).
> And I think OpenSSL installer / pre-built binaries is a lot more useful than 
> Crypto++, because all what people need from OpenSSl is the openssl command 
> line tool (in 90% of the cases). But personally I've never used cryptest.exe 
> yet...
> 
> BR
> 
> JPM 
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