Jeff Roberts wrote:
> Can anybody direct me to the steps required to ftp, install, compile and use OpenSSL
>in the Microsoft Windows 32 bit environment ?
Go to
http://www.openssl.org/source/
and search a mirror near you, save the archive to your harddisk and then use winzip to
extract it. If you don't have perl, you can use
Active State Perl:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html
You can get the Microsoft Macro Assembler for free at Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/ppack/default.asp
You don't need it to compile openssl, but it runs faster when you use masm. However
you have to have the Visual Studio Service Pack 4
installed, which you can find here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp/vs6sp4/full.asp?id=01
Since Vs-Sp4 is a 129MB download, you can find an older version of masm in the win98
DDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/ddk/ddk98.htm
(I haven't tried this myself)
If you have Visual C installed, you can continue by opening a command prompt and
starting \Visual Studio\vc98\bin\vcvars32.exe to set
the compiler environment. This done, follow the steps in the file install.w32 that you
find in the OpenSSL-Directory (type "perl
Configure VC-WIN32" at the command prompt, etc.).
You can find some documentation on how to use OpenSSL here:
http://www.openssl.org/docs/
There's a lot you can do with the commandline utility openssl, and even more when you
link to the libraries.
- David Maurus
PS: I`ve got the binaries up at
http://www.mailbag.de/Out32dll.zip
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