> We’re implementing our own web-server intended to run on Win32
> platform and using OpenSSL for TLS/SSL support. We’re obliged
> to be FIPS-certified and we’re using OpenSSL 0.9.7 with FIPS
> module for these purposes. Recently, we were requested to support
> amd64 platform. I’ve tried to build OpenSSL 0.9.8, but it failed
> to build successfully neither with cross-compiler, nor with
> native x86_64 gcc compiler. Anyway, I had to modify makefiles in
> both approaches.
 
> Alexey Nevolin

It's awfully hard to investigate a problem or find workarounds for a problem 
when the only description you have is "it failed to build successfully". 
Perhaps I could find a way to avoid the modifications you needed, except you 
don't tell me what they are.

Do you just like making people do extra work in order to help you? Yes, I could 
get to my amd64 Win32 machine, try the build process a few different ways, see 
what errors I get, then look for workarounds for them. But you've already done 
the first two steps, and making me redo them in order to help you seems like a 
complete waste of my time.

If you're developing a real application that requires FIPS compliance, surely 
spending an extra five minutes describing the actual problems you had, rather 
than making people guess and possibly solving problems other than the ones you 
are actually facing, would be a productive use of your time.

DS


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