Hi Eystein,
> typedef struct _STRING {
> USHORT Length;
> USHORT MaximumLength;
> PCHAR Buffer;
> } STRING, *PSTRING;
That looks like a UNICODE_STRING (or less commonly LSA_STRING) to me.
I don't ever recall seeing Microsoft defining it as a STRING. Perhaps
mingw/ntdef.h is the culprit.
Jeff
On 9/17/09, Eystein Måløy Stenberg <eystein.stenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI all,
> I'm using OpenSSL version 1.0.0 beta3 on Windows through MinGW.
> The reason for using the beta version is that I get errors compiling
> stable versions (openssl-0.9.8h); "./Configure mingw && make" gives:
> ---
> Configured for mingw.
> making all in crypto...
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Admin/openssl-0.9.8h/crypto'
> ( echo "#ifndef MK1MF_BUILD"; \
> echo ' /* auto-generated by crypto/Makefile for crypto/cversion.c */'; \
> echo ' #define CFLAGS "gcc -DOPENSSL_THREADS -DDSO_WIN32 -mno-cygwin
> -DL_ENDIAN -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -march=i486 -Wall
> -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x333 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2
> -DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM"'; \
> echo ' #define PLATFORM "mingw"'; \
> echo " #define DATE \"`LC_ALL=C LC_TIME=C date`\""; \
> echo '#endif' ) >buildinf.h
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../include/openssl/crypto.h',
> needed by `cryptlib.o'. Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Admin/openssl-0.9.8h/crypto'
> make: *** [build_crypto] Error 1
> ---
>
> While in 1.0.0 beta3, everything builds just fine.
> However, safestack.h, line 113 says "typedef char *STRING;", which
> collides with /mingw/include/ntdef.h, line 35:
> typedef struct _STRING {
> USHORT Length;
> USHORT MaximumLength;
> PCHAR Buffer;
> } STRING, *PSTRING;
>
> I.e. the two header files safestack.h and ntdef.h both define STRING.
> I don't find this STRING definition in the stable releases, hopefully
> it is just temporary in the beta release?
> I believe that header files should not use such generic names (e.g.
> OSSLSTRING would be better).
>
> Do you know if this will be fixed or could you point out what's wrong
> when I'm trying to build the stable version?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best regards,
> Eystein Stenberg
>
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