Re: [Openvpn-users] Building OpenVPN in MinGW

[Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, James Yonan wrote:

> > So in OpenVPN's makefile.w32 I had to change
> >
> > OPENSSL = /c/src/openssl-0.9.7e
> > LIB_DIRS = -L${OPENSSL}/out -L${LZO}
> > to
> > OPENSSL = /c/OpenSSL
> > LIB_DIRS = -L${OPENSSL}/lib/MinGW -L${LZO}
> >
> > Even after these changes I got the following compile error:
> >
> > c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe:
> > cannot find -lssl32
> >
> > To get around this problem, I renamed ssleay32.a to libssl32.a. Then it
> > found the library.
> >
> > Q1: Why did I have to rename ssleay32.a? It doesn't seem like the "right"
> > way to solve the problem.
> >
> >
> > Then the linking failed because it couldn't find the lzo library.
> >
> > I changed
> > LZO = /c/src/lzo-1.08
> > to
> > LZO = ../lzo-1.08
> >
> > which was the correct path in my installation, but I found that the libs
> > were created in the src/.libs dir, so I changed
> >
> > LIB_DIRS = -L${OPENSSL}/lib/MinGW -L${LZO}
> > to
> > LIB_DIRS = -L${OPENSSL}/lib/MinGW -L${LZO}/src/.libs
> >
> > and openvpn.exe could finaly be built.
> >
> > Q2: Did I do anything wrong while building LZO, or why did I have to
> > change the path to the lzo library in LIB_DIRS?
> >
> > James, what do you think about changing makefile.w32 to match a default
> > installtion of the binary OpenSSL distribution instead of the source
> > distribuition? I think very few windows users have any use for the OpenSSL
> > source, so they could avoid going through the trouble with building
> > OpenSSL just to build OpenVPN.
>
> Are you using this page to get the binary distro? :
>
> http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html

Yes.

> The problem I have with this is that it's a third party providing the
> build, not the OpenSSL project itself.  I would rather build OpenVPN from
> official OpenSSL sources.  I agree that it makes the build process more
> complex, but then this should not be an issue except for developers.

Okay, how about just adding a few lines about that the above changes to 
makefile.w32 are necessary to build OpenVPN using the binary distribution 
of OpenSSL to Install-Win32?

Do you have any clues about the other questions?

/Mathias