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2 INSTALLATION ON THE UNIX PLATFORM
3 ---------------------------------
4
5 [Installation on DOS (with djgpp), Windows, OpenVMS and MacOS (before MacOS X)
6  is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS and INSTALL.MacOS.
7  This document describes installation on operating systems in the Unix
8  family.]
9
10 To install OpenSSL, you will need:
11
12  * make
13  * Perl 5
14  * an ANSI C compiler
15  * a development environment in form of development libraries and C
16    header files
17  * a supported Unix operating system
18
19 Quick Start
20 -----------
21
22 If you want to just get on with it, do:
23
24  $ ./config
25  $ make
26  $ make test
27  $ make install
28
29 [If any of these steps fails, see section Installation in Detail below.]
30
31 This will build and install OpenSSL in the default location, which is (for
32 historical reasons) /usr/local/ssl. If you want to install it anywhere else,
33 run config like this:
34
35  $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
36
37
38 Configuration Options
39 ---------------------
40
41 There are several options to ./config (or ./Configure) to customize
42 the build:
43
44  --prefix=DIR  Install in DIR/bin, DIR/lib, DIR/include/openssl.
45                Configuration files used by OpenSSL will be in DIR/ssl
46                or the directory specified by --openssldir.
47
48  --openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified,
49                the library files and binaries are also installed there.
50
51  no-threads    Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded
52                applications.
53
54  threads       Build with support for multi-threaded applications.
55                This will usually require additional system-dependent options!
56                See "Note on multi-threading" below.
57
58  no-zlib       Don't try to build with support for zlib compression and
59                decompression.
60
61  zlib          Build with support for zlib compression/decompression.
62
63  zlib-dynamic  Like "zlib", but has OpenSSL load the zlib library dynamically
64                when needed.  This is only supported on systems where loading
65                of shared libraries is supported.  This is the default choice.
66
67  no-shared     Don't try to create shared libraries.
68
69  shared        In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared
70                libraries on platforms where it's supported.  See "Note on
71                shared libraries" below.
72
73  no-asm        Do not use assembler code.
74
75  386           Use the 80386 instruction set only (the default x86 code is
76                more efficient, but requires at least a 486).
77
78  no-<cipher>   Build without the specified cipher (bf, cast, des, dh, dsa,
79                hmac, md2, md5, mdc2, rc2, rc4, rc5, rsa, sha).
80                The crypto/<cipher> directory can be removed after running
81                "make depend".
82
83  -Dxxx, -lxxx, -Lxxx, -fxxx, -Kxxx These system specific options will
84                be passed through to the compiler to allow you to
85                define preprocessor symbols, specify additional libraries,
86                library directories or other compiler options.
87
88
89 Installation in Detail
90 ----------------------
91
92 1a. Configure OpenSSL for your operation system automatically:
93
94       $ ./config [options]
95
96     This guesses at your operating system (and compiler, if necessary) and
97     configures OpenSSL based on this guess. Run ./config -t to see
98     if it guessed correctly. If you want to use a different compiler, you
99     are cross-compiling for another platform, or the ./config guess was
100     wrong for other reasons, go to step 1b. Otherwise go to step 2.
101
102     On some systems, you can include debugging information as follows:
103
104       $ ./config -d [options]
105
106 1b. Configure OpenSSL for your operating system manually
107
108     OpenSSL knows about a range of different operating system, hardware and
109     compiler combinations. To see the ones it knows about, run
110
111       $ ./Configure
112
113     Pick a suitable name from the list that matches your system. For most
114     operating systems there is a choice between using "cc" or "gcc".  When
115     you have identified your system (and if necessary compiler) use this name
116     as the argument to ./Configure. For example, a "linux-elf" user would
117     run:
118
119       $ ./Configure linux-elf [options]
120
121     If your system is not available, you will have to edit the Configure
122     program and add the correct configuration for your system. The
123     generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
124     systems.
125
126     Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.org and
127     defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from
128     crypto/opensslconf.h.in).
129
130  2. Build OpenSSL by running:
131
132       $ make
133
134     This will build the OpenSSL libraries (libcrypto.a and libssl.a) and the
135     OpenSSL binary ("openssl"). The libraries will be built in the top-level
136     directory, and the binary will be in the "apps" directory.
137
138     If "make" fails, look at the output.  There may be reasons for
139     the failure that aren't problems in OpenSSL itself (like missing
140     standard headers).  If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, please
141     report the problem to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org> (note that your
142     message will be recorded in the request tracker publicly readable
143     via http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html and will be forwarded to a
144     public mailing list). Include the output of "make report" in your message.
145     Please check out the request tracker. Maybe the bug was already
146     reported or has already been fixed.
147
148     [If you encounter assembler error messages, try the "no-asm"
149     configuration option as an immediate fix.]
150
151     Compiling parts of OpenSSL with gcc and others with the system
152     compiler will result in unresolved symbols on some systems.
153
154  3. After a successful build, the libraries should be tested. Run:
155
156       $ make test
157
158     If a test fails, look at the output.  There may be reasons for
159     the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like a missing
160     or malfunctioning bc).  If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself,
161     try removing any compiler optimization flags from the CFLAGS line
162     in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". Please send a bug
163     report to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>, including the output of
164     "make report" in order to be added to the request tracker at
165     http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html.
166
167  4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with
168
169       $ make install
170
171     This will create the installation directory (if it does not exist) and
172     then the following subdirectories:
173
174       certs           Initially empty, this is the default location
175                       for certificate files.
176       man/man1        Manual pages for the 'openssl' command line tool
177       man/man3        Manual pages for the libraries (very incomplete)
178       misc            Various scripts.
179       private         Initially empty, this is the default location
180                       for private key files.
181
182     If you didn't choose a different installation prefix, the
183     following additional subdirectories will be created:
184
185       bin             Contains the openssl binary and a few other
186                       utility programs.
187       include/openssl Contains the header files needed if you want to
188                       compile programs with libcrypto or libssl.
189       lib             Contains the OpenSSL library files themselves.
190
191     Package builders who want to configure the library for standard
192     locations, but have the package installed somewhere else so that
193     it can easily be packaged, can use
194
195       $ make INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/package-root install
196
197     (or specify "--install_prefix=/tmp/package-root" as a configure
198     option).  The specified prefix will be prepended to all
199     installation target filenames.
200
201
202  NOTE: The header files used to reside directly in the include
203  directory, but have now been moved to include/openssl so that
204  OpenSSL can co-exist with other libraries which use some of the
205  same filenames.  This means that applications that use OpenSSL
206  should now use C preprocessor directives of the form
207
208       #include <openssl/ssl.h>
209
210  instead of "#include <ssl.h>", which was used with library versions
211  up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b.
212
213  If you install a new version of OpenSSL over an old library version,
214  you should delete the old header files in the include directory.
215
216  Compatibility issues:
217
218  *  COMPILING existing applications
219
220     To compile an application that uses old filenames -- e.g.
221     "#include <ssl.h>" --, it will usually be enough to find
222     the CFLAGS definition in the application's Makefile and
223     add a C option such as
224
225          -I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl
226
227     to it.
228
229     But don't delete the existing -I option that points to
230     the ..../include directory!  Otherwise, OpenSSL header files
231     could not #include each other.
232
233  *  WRITING applications
234
235     To write an application that is able to handle both the new
236     and the old directory layout, so that it can still be compiled
237     with library versions up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b without bothering
238     the user, you can proceed as follows:
239
240     -  Always use the new filename of OpenSSL header files,
241        e.g. #include <openssl/ssl.h>.
242
243     -  Create a directory "incl" that contains only a symbolic
244        link named "openssl", which points to the "include" directory
245        of OpenSSL.
246        For example, your application's Makefile might contain the
247        following rule, if OPENSSLDIR is a pathname (absolute or
248        relative) of the directory where OpenSSL resides:
249
250        incl/openssl:
251                -mkdir incl
252                cd $(OPENSSLDIR) # Check whether the directory really exists
253                -ln -s `cd $(OPENSSLDIR); pwd`/include incl/openssl
254
255        You will have to add "incl/openssl" to the dependencies
256        of those C files that include some OpenSSL header file.
257
258     -  Add "-Iincl" to your CFLAGS.
259
260     With these additions, the OpenSSL header files will be available
261     under both name variants if an old library version is used:
262     Your application can reach them under names like <openssl/foo.h>,
263     while the header files still are able to #include each other
264     with names of the form <foo.h>.
265
266
267 Note on multi-threading
268 -----------------------
269
270 For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what compiler options
271 are needed to generate a library that is suitable for multi-threaded
272 applications.  On these systems, support for multi-threading is enabled
273 by default; use the "no-threads" option to disable (this should never be
274 necessary).
275
276 On other systems, to enable support for multi-threading, you will have
277 to specify at least two options: "threads", and a system-dependent option.
278 (The latter is "-D_REENTRANT" on various systems.)  The default in this
279 case, obviously, is not to include support for multi-threading (but
280 you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message
281 from the Configure script.)
282
283
284 Note on shared libraries
285 ------------------------
286
287 Shared library is currently an experimental feature.  The only reason to
288 have them would be to conserve memory on systems where several program
289 are using OpenSSL.  Binary backward compatibility can't be guaranteed
290 before OpenSSL version 1.0.
291
292 For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
293 build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl.  On these systems,
294 the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving
295 the option "shared" will get them created.  This method supports Makefile
296 targets for shared library creation, like linux-shared.  Those targets
297 can currently be used on their own just as well, but this is expected
298 to change in future versions of OpenSSL.
299
300 Note on random number generation
301 --------------------------------
302
303 Availability of cryptographically secure random numbers is required for
304 secret key generation. OpenSSL provides several options to seed the
305 internal PRNG. If not properly seeded, the internal PRNG will refuse
306 to deliver random bytes and a "PRNG not seeded error" will occur.
307 On systems without /dev/urandom (or similar) device, it may be necessary
308 to install additional support software to obtain random seed.
309 Please check out the manual pages for RAND_add(), RAND_bytes(), RAND_egd(),
310 and the FAQ for more information.
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