How to build OpenSSL with MinGW in Windows? [closed]

Question

I want to build OpenSSL in Windows with MinGW,
How can I do that? Please help me.
Thanks.

Answer 1

This is an extract from a personal how-to I wrote. It has since been transformed to a script (look at the OpenSSL section, obviously). It assumes you have a working installation of MinGW and that you have a working MSys console.

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OpenSSL

To build OpenSSL, you need a working Perl installation.

Download OpenSSL from its official website and decompress the archive.

Windows 32/64 bits - MinGW

You must run these commands from a MSys console.

For 32 bits:

perl Configure mingw no-shared no-asm --prefix=/c/OpenSSL

For 64 bits:

perl Configure mingw64 no-shared no-asm --prefix=/C/OpenSSL-x64

Then:

make depend

make

make install

The make depend line is only needed on the most recent OpenSSL version if you specified any of the no-... options.

Note that this will compile OpenSSL in static mode.

If at some point you get a "make (e=2):" error, ensure you don't have another "make.exe" in your PATH or just type /bin/make instead of make.

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You may, of course, need to compile it with other options (such as dynamic linking, or asm enabled). So feel free to look at the help perl Configure can provide to know more about the available options.