On Sun January 23 2011, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011, Martin Herrman wrote: > > > All, > > > > I am working on a custom firmware for a multimedia device (Eminent > > EM7075) which is based on a MIPS EL architecture. > > > > The official firmware contains a shared libcrypto.so library. > > > > When I cross-compile for target 'dist' using the 'shared' > > configuration option, I still get only a libcrypto.a file (and my > > openssl binary is huge compared to the one on the official firmware). > > > > Now I can not replace the openssl binaries on the official firmware > > with a newer version. > > > > The official firmware uses openssl 0.9.8k, I prefer to use openssl > > 1.0.0, but 0.9.8q would also be nice. > > > > I have also tried to compile 0.9.8k as a shared library, but even in > > that case I only get a libcrypto.a. > > > > After ./Configure it says: > > > > Configured for dist. > > > > You gave the option 'shared'. Normally, that would give you shared > > libraries. > > Unfortunately, the OpenSSL configuration doesn't include shared library > > support > > for this platform yet, so it will pretend you gave the option 'no-shared'. > > If > > you can inform the developpers (openssl-dev\@openssl.org) how to support > > shared > > libraries on this platform, they will at least look at it and try their best > > (but please first make sure you have tried with a current version of > > OpenSSL). > > > > How did the manufacturer get a shared libcrypto on the device? > > > > The "dist" target is really meant only for making distribution tarballs. > > There are a number of generic Linux platforms you can use which may work for > you. Try "linux-generic32" for example (assuming it is a 32 bit system). You > can also include the command line option -DL_ENDIAN: some optimisations are > used if you specify the endianness of the machine. > > You can use the auto detect mechanism (./config) by setting up some > environment variables as follows: > > MACHINE: output of uname -m on target system > RELEASE: output of uname -r on target system > SYSTEM: output of uname -s on target system > BUILD: output of uname -v on target system > > Also you can set CROSS_COMPILE to the cross compiler prefix. >
Plus there are the core specific options to consider, shown here: http://openplayer.org/resource/tutorials/58-cs-soc-option-matching.html for the SoC in your media player. Mike > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. > Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
