How to build OpenSSL for WP8?

Question

How to build OpenSSL for WP8?

AFAIK, we must replace winsock.h by winsock2.h because WP8 only supports winsock2.h. And maybe w

Answer 1

You can use the Microsoft openssl fork on github with support for windows phone 8.1/8.0 and Windows Store 8.1, that address the entropy on each platform using windows random generators, instructions are located at INSTALL.WINAPP, there is a script located at

ms\do_vsprojects.bat

you should be able to just execute that script withing the root location and open vsout\openssl.sln to build the openssl libraries for different windows platforms.

The fork is located at

https://github.com/microsoft/openssl

At this momment these changes are being in process to be integrated with the main OpenSSL source code base.