Re : configure ssl in AWS on Windows?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Stephen,

> I'm trying to enable ssl in AWS on Windows 8, with GNAT GPL 2016.

You may want to upgrade to GPL 2017.

> The AWS manual says "compile AWS with ssl". Easier said than done
> (sigh).

Right. There is no magic solution on Windows.

> I have mingw32 installed, so I installed the 'openssl-devel' package
> in that, and copied mingw32/include/openssl to gnat_gpl_2016/include.
> 
> I also copied mingw32/lib/libssl.a to gnat_gpl_2016/lib/libssl32.a
> 
> However, 'make build' in aws is still complaining about '-leay32'
> 
> mingw32 has libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll, but no corresponding .a.

I don't remember all the details has I'm not using Windows since many
years now. But you should not need the .a and placing the 2 .dll into
the GNAT Pro bin directory should be sufficient.

To setup AWS:

$ make SOCKET=openssl setup

Then the standard build procedure.

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