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author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2016-02-09 10:17:59 +0000 |
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committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2016-02-09 15:11:38 +0000 |
commit | 8b75603cc0ce8f4d9deb7218fbd905d3fc73a4c0 (patch) | |
tree | 9419e3a58f34baba49af4693331fa638533e1c99 /INSTALL | |
parent | 498abff0ae907dce08f37a1353976755e8c8120e (diff) | |
download | openssl-8b75603cc0ce8f4d9deb7218fbd905d3fc73a4c0.tar.gz |
Provide documentation for auto-init/auto-deinit
Provide some man pages for auto-init/deinit. Also update the INSTALL
documentation for information on the new Configure options implemented as
part of this.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -51,6 +51,19 @@ --openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified, the library files and binaries are also installed there. + no-autoalginit Don't automatically load all supported ciphers and digests. + Typically OpenSSL will make available all of its supported + ciphers and digests. For a statically linked application this + may be undesirable if small executable size is an objective. + This only affects libcrypto. Ciphers and digests will have to be + loaded manually using EVP_add_cipher() and EVP_add_digest() if + this option is used. + + no-autoerrinit Don't automatically load all libcrypto/libssl error strings. + Typically OpenSSL will automatically load human readable error + strings. For a statically linked application this may be + undesirable if small executable size is an objective. + no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded applications. @@ -327,6 +340,10 @@ you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message from the Configure script.) + OpenSSL provides in built support for two threading models: pthreads (found on + most UNIX/Linux systems), and Windows threads. No other threading models are + supported. If your platform does not provide pthreads or Windows threads then + you should Configure with the "no-threads" option. Note on shared libraries ------------------------ |