How to build OpenSSL on Windows with Visual Studio 2017?

Question

I am trying to use OpenSSL but I am stuck on the step of compiling. The OpenSSL project has very unfriendly (bad) documentation.

Is there any actual help how to build th

Answer 1

1. go into ssl directory using visual studio cmd and add perl and nasm to system path then type:

2. perl Configure --openssldir=D:OpenSSLdirectory VC-WIN32

3. ms\do_ms.bat

4. nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak

5. nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak install

6. ( enjoy. )