Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
On 3/23/2012 12:53 AM, jeremy hunt wrote:
This posting is to help people to build OpenSSL 1.0.1 with Microsoft
Visual Studio. It may also indicate a required change to the build
instructions
for Microsoft Visual Studio.
Summary:
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I found I needed to install the Windows SDK and manually configure my
build environment to successfully build OpenSSL 1.0.1
Details: (cut out for this reply, refer to my original posting if you
need help)
Regards,
Jeremy
If you had to do that, then your command line build environment on
your new machine was not set up correctly to begin with. Most modern
projects would probably not have built (not just OpenSSL). As a
Windows developer, the Windows SDK is an implied requirement for any
project.
Thanks for that Thomas. Generally what you say in this list is good but
in this case I do not think your statement is very helpful. It would be
more collaborative to suggest a way to do that just for those people who
have missed it, ... as I attempted to do in my original posting. I was
pointing out that the standard tools did not do that for you. Perhaps
you do not use the Microsoft Visual Studio Command Prompt Window for
builds as I do.
If there is a previous requirement for a build, the documentation
generally states it. I am trying to help by suggesting a small change in
the documentation which might cut down questions in this list. If you
think things that you take for granted are too trivial to tell the list,
that is fine. I prefer to let people know problems I have had in the
past in the hope it will help some of them and make them and this list
more productive.
By the way I had built a number of other Windows products on the new
build environment before building OpenSSL, ... successfully and without
the Windows SDK. As I stated it was a new build environment. OpenSSL was
the fifth product I had built on the new environment and the first that
required the Windows SDK, so I am unsure if I agree with your statement.
Wouldn't it be better to explicitly state the requirement, rather than
rely on previous knowledge. Personally I am surprised that OpenSSL uses
a native crypto lib, not that I have investigated why.
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