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@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ This will usually require additional system-dependent options! See "Note on multi-threading" below. + no-shared Don't try to create shared libraries. + + shared In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared + libraries on platforms where it's supported. See "Note on + shared libraries" below. + no-asm Do not use assembler code. 386 Use the 80386 instruction set only (the default x86 code is @@ -253,3 +259,14 @@ you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message from the Configure script.) + + Note on shared libraries + ------------------------ + + For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to + build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems, + the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving + the option "shared" will get them created. This method supports Makefile + targets for shared library creation, like linux-shared. Those targets + can currently be used on their own just as well, but this is expected + to change in future versions of OpenSSL. |