Lucky you!.

I compiled 2.0.47 on my own it was rather cumber i have to download flex,
bison etc.

Compiling openssl was rather straight forward with using the perl script. I
set an environment variable in MS C++ 6.0 IDE. I am sorry I forgot it which
variable I used.

Regard

Richard

> Thanks for the info.
> 
> I was able to get a clean build from the apache and openssl source
> distributions last
> night.
> 
> The apache site contains the following page which describes pretty well
> how to build the
> openssl, and apache with mod_ssl directly from the source if you have the
> microsoft developer
> studio.
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/platform/win_compiling.html
> 
> I used developer studio 6 and was able able to get a clean apache build
> with ssl
> using openssl 9.7e and the apache 2.0.52 source distribution along with
> the other
> tools required for the build, i.e. perl, awk.
> 
> Couple minor issues I did run into were:
> 
> 1) In order for the "mod_deflate" to compile, I had to use the zlib 1.1.4
> source distribution,
> not the 1.2.2 which is the "latest" for windows.
> 
> 2) The instructions for running the perl scripts to build openssl are a
> little unclear.
> First you untar the openssl so that the openssl source tree is in the
> srclib/openssl directory.
> You must cd into the the srclib/openssl directory, then execute the perl
> scripts as described.
> 
> 3) On windows you can't execute the command.
> 
> perl util\mk1mf.pl dll no-asm no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-idea VC-WIN32 >makefile
> 
> It will overwrite the "Makefile" that is previously configured.
> 
> You must direct the output to another filename, e.g.
> perl util\mk1mf.pl dll no-asm no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-idea VC-WIN32
> >makefile.rel
> 
> then "nmake /f nakefile.rel" for the release build.
> 
> Other than this it went pretty well.
> 
> There are no pre-build ssl keys or certificates that I could find in the
> source distribution,
> so I used the openssl.exe application to create a key and a (self-signed
> certificate) and droped
> then add them as the conf/ssl.key/server.key and conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
> files.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> 
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