I attempted to build openssl using the FreeBSD port of openssl.
Options are set using make config as follows:
Options for openssl 0.9.8l_2
[ ] I386 Use optimzed assembler for 80386
[X] SSE2 Use runtime SSE2 detection
[X] ZLIB Build with zlib compression
and the Makefile shows
You must download the openssl-fips.1.2.0.tar.gz package, and follow
the instructions in the companion Security Policy *precisely*. That
is the only package that can build a fipscanister.o.
Once the fipscanister.o exists and is installed properly, then you can
build with the fips option. Not