Re: Install OpenSSL on Windows NT

[Erwann ABALEA]

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Patrick Stalder wrote:

 We have a server with WindowsNT 4.0 (SP4) and Perl 5.004_2 installed. We
 have tried to install OpenSSL on this server, but it doesnt work. To
 build the libraries, it is necessary to have a Visual C++ Compiler on
 the system?
 Where can I find more informationen for the installation on a windows
 platform?

OpenSSL is a development library, it's not a magical item that you just
have to plug in your Windows environment to turn your machine into a
secure vault

Of course you need to have a compiler to use it, and if you plan to
produce something to run with Windows, you'd better have a Visual C++ (you
can compile the stuff with another compiler, I did it with Borland C++
Builder, but it's a real pain...).

And finally, you need to have a project in mind... Something you want to
create or adapt...

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Re: Install OpenSSL on Windows NT

[Ulf Möller]

Of course you need to have a compiler to use it, and if you plan to
produce something to run with Windows, you'd better have a Visual C++

For many purposes Mingw32 (a port of GNU C++ which uses the Microsoft
C runtime system that is shipped with each copy of Windows) is at
least as good as Visual C++.

You can certainly use OpenSSL with Mingw32, and with a few patches
that have been posted recently, Mingw can also be used to compile
OpenSSL.

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