On 8/26/2016 12:25 PM, Matt Caswell wrote: > On 26/08/16 19:17, Harster, Kaarl C CIV NAVSEA KPWA, 104 wrote: >> Hello, >> I've tried many times now to install OpenSSL 1.1.0 pre6 on my Windows 2012 R2 64bit machine. > > 1.1.0 pre6 is the beta version, but the final 1.1.0 release was made > available yesterday, so to start with I suggest you use that. @Kaarl - Prebuilt 64-bit Windows *default* binaries of 1.1.0 can be obtained from here: https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html If you need non-default, then you're on your own for building. Have fun? @Everyone else - Anyway, on to the real reason for posting... >> We are wanting to run 64bit everything. >> I have installed >> ActivePerl 5.24.0.2400 I've been building binaries using Strawberry Perl Portable for a few years now. The ActiveState Perl installer and binaries were (and are) a nightmare to obtain and work with. Also, most environments where you would use ActivePerl technically violate the ActivePerl license agreement which, of course, no one ever reads. I'm never going back to that mess. Strawberry Perl is comparatively much, much easier to obtain, install, legally use, and it works just fine. The OpenSSL Configure and Perl other scripts in the source tree barely scratch the surface of the Perl scripting language, so any decent flavor of Perl has a pretty good chance of working. Unless someone *needs* ActivePerl for other things besides building OpenSSL and they have funky Perl code sitting around that depends on the ActivePerl flavor, Strawberry Perl is probably more than sufficient and won't make a mess of the system that it's installed onto. Strawberry is also the flavor of Perl that Larry Wall (the guy who created Perl) uses when he is at a Windows box. So there's that too. In my opinion, Strawberry Perl should be the recommended flavor of Perl for building OpenSSL on Windows instead of ActivePerl. The Strawberry Perl Portable edition is most useful to *me*, but using it requires a few extra environment variables to be set beforehand. Therefore, the Portable variant isn't for everyone. -- Thomas Hruska Shining Light Productions Home of BMP2AVI and Win32 OpenSSL. http://www.slproweb.com/
