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> On 03/31/2024 3:27 PM WEST Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi All,
> 
> Please find a Windows build here:
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mee9swkwgpa1gsw0axhl1/Apache_OpenOffice_4.5.0_Win_x86_install_en-US_openssl.exe?rlkey=3f9kyqdh4fmztllsda9pqbhmx&dl=0
> 
> Happy testing!
> 
> Regards,
> 
>     Matthias
> 
> Am 31.03.24 um 15:27 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
> > Hi Damjan, All,
> >
> > Am 29.03.24 um 15:32 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
> >> Hi Damjan,
> >>
> >> Am 29.03.24 um 10:33 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> I've now pushed commit 4c5b548fb6ece87dd30bbf720aca0d994a749167 into 
> >>> trunk,
> >>> upgrading our OpenSSL version from 1.0.2u to 3.0.13.
> >>
> >> Great!
> >>
> >> I am just doing a build on Windows.
> >
> > Builds fine for me!
> >
> > But I am not sure how to test OpenSSL functionality?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >    Matthias
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >>    Matthias
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Some issues to consider:
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------
> >>> PLATFORMS
> >>> ---------------------
> >>> It works on FreeBSD 14, both with system OpenSSL linked dynamically and
> >>> internal OpenSSL linked statically.
> >>>
> >>> Linux hasn't been tested but is so similar to FreeBSD that it really 
> >>> should
> >>> work.
> >>>
> >>> It works on Windows, with the following changes:
> >>> - OpenSSL requires Perl to build, but doesn't like Cygwin's Perl.
> >>> Previously, OpenSSL 1.0.2u was patched to use Cygwin's Perl, but 
> >>> OpenSSL 3
> >>> completely changed the build system, and I couldn't port the old 
> >>> patches.
> >>> Now note how traditionally our build tools (eg. make, Apache Ant, 
> >>> awk, sed,
> >>> etc.) were all installed prior to building OpenOffice, detected by
> >>> ./configure, and then used during the build. I've done something 
> >>> different:
> >>> during ./bootstrap it will now download the Win32 Strawberry Perl 
> >>> portable
> >>> binaries as a dependency, and while building OpenSSL, it will unzip 
> >>> these
> >>> and temporarily use them as the Perl for building OpenSSL. This 
> >>> works, and
> >>> should reliably continue to work, but is a bit unusual, uses close 
> >>> to 800
> >>> MB extra disk space, and cannot use a system-wide Strawberry Perl 
> >>> instead
> >>> of the portable binaries, so it is something we may want to change 
> >>> going
> >>> forward. On the plus side, this new approach neither requires any
> >>> additional options to ./configure, nor babysitting any more build
> >>> dependencies, nor dragging around long patches to change OpenSSL to use
> >>> Cygwin's Perl. If anybody objects, speak up.
> >>> - Some defines were missing from MSVC's header files, for the ancient
> >>> version of the MSVC compiler we use, so I had to add them as command 
> >>> line
> >>> parameters to the compiler instead, eg.
> >>> "-DINT64_MAX=9223372036854775807i64".
> >>> - OpenSSL normally requires fairly recent versions of Windows, but also
> >>> supports the more minimal Windows CE, and so has fallback paths that 
> >>> can be
> >>> used for older versions of Windows. I've configured it to target 
> >>> Windows 95
> >>> and NT 4.0, and added a small number of patches that fix the build 
> >>> issues,
> >>> mostly by using the Windows CE fallback code.
> >>> - NASM is handled better: before, when NASM was already in the $PATH
> >>> instead of --with-nasm-path being passed to ./configure, building 
> >>> openssl
> >>> would break. It now works.
> >>> - Python needed a lot of patching to use OpenSSL 3, and the Win64 
> >>> build of
> >>> python is probably broken and will need further work.
> >>> - It takes really long to build. We could disable unit tests to 
> >>> speed it up
> >>> (by passing "no-tests" to Configure), but I am not sure I like skipping
> >>> tests. We should be testing more, not less.
> >>>
> >>> macOS? Who knows. It looks like on macOS, our main/openssl module links
> >>> statically, and doesn't apply any patches, so it might already work.
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------
> >>> LICENSING
> >>> ---------------------
> >>> Licensing has changed, as OpenSSL 3 is under the Apache Software 
> >>> License v2
> >>> like ourselves, and our LICENSE and NOTICE files have been greatly
> >>> simplified.
> >>>
> >>> -------------------------
> >>> CODE CHANGES
> >>> -------------------------
> >>> Remarkably, no changes to our C/C++ code were required. Some code 
> >>> changes
> >>> were required in the past, eg. 
> >>> f884850fece86ece56c7194bb1e746641f77c0a0 to
> >>> deal with EVP_CIPHER_CTX_init() -> EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() between OpenSSL
> >>> 1.0.x and 1.1.x. However, nothing needed changing between 1.1.x and 
> >>> 3.0.13,
> >>> OpenSSL was sufficiently backward compatible.
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------
> >>> OTHER BRANCHES
> >>> ------------------------------
> >>> While those 1.0.x -> 1.1.x code changes are in trunk, they may be 
> >>> absent
> >>> from other branches, so cherry picking this commit to other branches 
> >>> may
> >>> require more commits to be cherry picked.
> >>>
> >>> -------------
> >>> FUTURE
> >>> -------------
> >>> OpenSSL 3.0.x is the LTS release series, and will be supported until
> >>> 2026-09-07.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Damjan
> >>>

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