[Mingw-users] Re: Errors in MingwPORT of wgetc

[Edward D. <edd...@tr...>]

Michael Gerdau wrote:
>>Same problems as above. I also noticed that mingw is missing SSL libraries and
>>includes. I did not notice an OpenSSL port for mingw. Is there one ?
> 
> 
> Download the actual version (0.9.8) from http://www.openssl.org/
> unpack it and read the instruction in INSTALL.W32 - there is
> a section dealing with MinGW (no MSYS required).
> 
> They say you will need ActiveState Perl -- if you are lucky the
> Perl that comes with MSYS will do (didn't try, just guessing).
> 
> Last time I tried (openssl-0.9.6) it worked out of the box from
> the tarball (used ActiveState Perl back then).

I was able to build OpenSSL for Mingw successfully. The actual problem with the 
MingwPORT of wgetc remains.