Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 17:41 schrieb Jay Potter: > I am interested in developing a PKCS#11 module that I can use for > Firefox in windows. Can I use OpenSC to do this?
yes. opensc includes a pkcs#11 module and works for many cards/formats, and has been tested and works well with firefox, on windows, mac os X, linux and other operating systems. > I see that there is > an Windows installer for the project, but do I have to build the project > under linux and then install it to windows or what? no. the windows installer is only because windows people usualy need a binary installer, only very view people recompile the code themself. also opensc has a number of dependencies like openssl, ltdl, zlib, ... and thus it is easier for us to provide one installer with everything included. scb / the windows installer is currently build on a normal windows machine with vistual studio / vc 7 and make and perl. martin has managed to build it with the free visual studio express, as far as I remember. so I will maybe test and then use win xp home + vc express for compiling it in the future. currently the installer is created with inno setup. but I might give nsis a try someday. oh, the official tar files and snapshots are created on linux with automake/conf/libtool, because we need that. but I think you can also use opensc svn checkouts on windows without problems - the missing "Makefile.in" and "configure" etc. files are only used on unix builds. if you need any help compiling opensc on windows, please let me know. it is a bit tricky and a look at the makefile in the scb svn repository might help. but it still is not documnted well, so feel free to ask. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
