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diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 7d8ce5c14..7e2600eb7 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -201,33 +201,33 @@ Win32 Microsoft command line style ---------------------------- + Please read the OpenSSL documentation on how to compile and install - the OpenSSL library. This generates the libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll - files in the out32dll subdirectory in the OpenSSL home directory. If - you compiled OpenSSL static libraries (libeay32.lib, ssleay32.lib, - RSAglue.lib) they are created in the out32 subdirectory. + the OpenSSL libraries. The build process of OpenSSL generates the + libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll files in the out32dll subdirectory in + the OpenSSL home directory. OpenSSL static libraries (libeay32.lib, + ssleay32.lib, RSAglue.lib) are created in the out32 subdirectory. - Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables - set. The vcvars32.bat file is part of the Microsoft development - environment and you may find it in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual - Studio\vc98\bin' if you installed Visual C/C++ 6 in the default - directory. + Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get a proper environment. The + vcvars32.bat file is part of the Microsoft development environment and + you may find it in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\vc98\bin' + provided that you installed Visual C/C++ 6 in the default directory. Before running nmake define the OPENSSL_PATH environment variable with the root/base directory of OpenSSL, for example: set OPENSSL_PATH=c:\openssl-0.9.6b - Then run 'nmake vc-ssl' or 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' in the curl's root + Then run 'nmake vc-ssl' or 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' in curl's root directory. 'nmake vc-ssl' will create a libcurl static and dynamic libraries in the lib subdirectory, as well as a statically linked - version of curl.exe in the scr subdirectory. This statically linked + version of curl.exe in the src subdirectory. This statically linked version is a standalone executable not requiring any DLL at - runtime. This making method requires that you have build the static - libraries of OpenSSL available in OpenSSL's out32 subdirectory. + runtime. This make method requires that you have the static OpenSSL + libraries available in OpenSSL's out32 subdirectory. 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' creates the libcurl dynamic library and links curl.exe against libcurl and OpenSSL dynamically. - This executables requires libcurl.dll and the OpenSSL DLLs + This executable requires libcurl.dll and the OpenSSL DLLs at runtime. Microsoft / Borland style |