What is the best way to calculate a checksum for a file that is on my machine?

Question

I\'m on a Windows machine and I want to run a checksum on the MySQL distribution I just got. It looks like there are products to download, an unsupported Microsoft tool, an

Answer 1

Hashing is a standalone application that performs MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2 family. Built upon OpenSSL.

Answer 2

Just use win32 Checksum api. MD5 is native in Win32.