On Wed, Mar 09, 2011, Collins, Jerry wrote:

> Stephan,  
>   Maybe I'm confused, and it's been two years since I dealt with this,
> but I thought the libeayfips32.lib was built as part of the fips build,
> not as a follow on step.  Also, the libeay32.lib that is built by the
> ms\do_fips no-asm doesn't give me an option of whether to build a DLL or
> static library.  It automatically builds a DLL.
> 

The build process has changed since the 1.1 module: which had to use MingW.
The 1.2 modules uses VC++ throughout and you need two steps.

The reason you build a FIPS capable OpenSSL is so you can keep up to date with
security and bugfixes outside the validated code.

Steve.
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