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authorJoão Reis <reis@janeasystems.com>2018-03-24 22:56:59 +0000
committerShigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@ohtsu.org>2018-04-10 06:45:45 +0900
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build, tools, win: add nasm detection for OpenSSL
OpenSSL-1.1.0 requires the nasm assembler for building asm files on Windows. This finds nasm at \Program Files\NASM\nasm.exe or \ProgramFiles(x86)\NASM\nasm.exe in vcbuild.bat for users who did not add its path in their enviroments. Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/1190 Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4270 PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19794 Reviewed-By: Shigeki Ohtsu <ohtsu@ohtsu.org> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org> Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
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@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ Prerequisites:
* Basic Unix tools required for some tests,
[Git for Windows](http://git-scm.com/download/win) includes Git Bash
and tools which can be included in the global `PATH`.
+* **Optional** (for OpenSSL assembler modules): the [NetWide Assembler](http://www.nasm.us/),
+ if not installed in the default location it needs to be manually added
+ to `PATH`.
* **Optional** (to build the MSI): the [WiX Toolset v3.11](http://wixtoolset.org/releases/)
and the [Wix Toolset Visual Studio 2017 Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobMensching.WixToolsetVisualStudio2017Extension).