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| author | levitte <levitte> | 2002-06-27 16:29:46 +0000 |
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| committer | levitte <levitte> | 2002-06-27 16:29:46 +0000 |
| commit | 7b100dd73b091d14b27c5837c9c6c0b4492f2605 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f2e658c7be43ea1f1545bbf5bc24fffac08edb6 /INSTALL.W32 | |
| parent | eb5a94ad9d94f2b1f8a796a6cca70e308d7600e4 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-7b100dd73b091d14b27c5837c9c6c0b4492f2605.tar.gz | |
Update the information on Cygwin.
Part of PR 75
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.W32')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.W32 | 24 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32 index f7f21be7c..3de6544fc 100644 --- a/INSTALL.W32 +++ b/INSTALL.W32 @@ -152,17 +152,17 @@ GNU C (Cygwin) -------------- - Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running on - NT 4.0, Windows 9x and Windows 2000. Consequently, a make of OpenSSL - with Cygwin is closer to a GNU bash environment such as Linux rather - than other W32 makes that are based on a single makefile approach. - Cygwin implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is - contrasted to Mingw32 which links dynamically to msvcrt.dll or - crtdll.dll. + Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running + on NT 4.0, Windows 9x, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. + Consequently, a make of OpenSSL with Cygwin is closer to a GNU + bash environment such as Linux than to other W32 makes which are + based on a single makefile approach. Cygwin implements Posix/Unix + calls through cygwin1.dll, and is contrasted to Mingw32 which links + dynamically to msvcrt.dll or crtdll.dll. To build OpenSSL using Cygwin: - * Install Cygwin (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin) + * Install Cygwin (see http://cygwin.com/) * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path (recent Cygwin perl (version 5.6.1-2 of the latter has been reported to work) or @@ -188,13 +188,9 @@ stripping of carriage returns. To avoid this ensure that a binary mount is used, e.g. mount -b c:\somewhere /home. - As of version 1.1.1 Cygwin is relatively unstable in its handling - of cr/lf issues. These make procedures succeeded with versions 1.1 and - the snapshot 20000524 (Slow!). - - "bc" is not provided in the Cygwin distribution. This causes a + "bc" is not provided in older Cygwin distribution. This causes a non-fatal error in "make test" but is otherwise harmless. If - desired, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change. + desired and needed, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change. Installation |