Creating OpenSSL dll in Windows using MinGW64 - dll

I am trying to build OpenSSL for my project in Windows. I am using MinGW64 for this. However, when trying to build shared libraries OpenSSL dll.a are still archive files. I configure OpenSSL as follows:
Configure --cross-compile-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --install-prefix=C:\install --prefix=/openssl-1.0.1e shared no-idea no-rc5 no-mdc2 mingw64
I am hoping someone could help me with what I am doing wrong.

I don't believe OpenSSL supports the configuration.
Configure has MinGW64 target, but it looks like it only builds static archive.
# MinGW
"mingw", "gcc:-mno-cygwin -DL_ENDIAN -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -fomit-frame-pointer
-O3 -march=i486 -Wall::-D_MT:MINGW32:-lws2_32 -lgdi32 -lcrypt32:BN_LLONG
${x86_gcc_des} ${x86_gcc_opts} EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN:${x86_asm}:coff:win32:
cygwin-shared:-D_WINDLL -DOPENSSL_USE_APPLINK:-mno-cygwin:.dll.a",
...
"mingw64", "gcc:-mno-cygwin -DL_ENDIAN -O3 -Wall -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DUNICODE
-D_UNICODE::-D_MT:MINGW64:-lws2_32 -lgdi32 -lcrypt32:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT RC4_CHUNK_LL
DES_INT EXPORT_VAR_AS_FN:${x86_64_asm}:mingw64:win32:cygwin-shared:-D_WINDLL:
-mno-cygwin:.dll.a",
But I think it should be invoked as:
perl Configure mingw64 no-shared no-asm --prefix=/C/install
You can copy/paste the mingw64 target and turn knobs on it, if you'd like. I often copy a similar target when cross compiling.
OpenSSL for Windows might also be helpful.

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How can I properly configure the g++ include path with mingw64?

I have installed msys2/mingw64 because I need the g++ compiler. Now, I want to compile some c++ oce which requires openblas. I have installed the package using pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-openblas. However, compiling the code fails with
fatal error: cblas.h: No such file or directory
Clearly, the include path does not contain the headers from openblas which are located at C:\msys64\mings64\include\openblas. This is easy to fix by passing -I<include path> as an additional argument to g++.
Now, I was wondering whether there is an automated way to include include files/headers of installed packages in the g++ include path. The same problem also holds for libraries.
For example, pacman might be able to atomatically append these paths onto some environment variable which g++ checks.
The standard way to get compilation and linking options for a library on MSYS2 and other Unix-like systems is to run this command:
pkg-config --cflags --libs openblas
If you're just compiling, use --cflags by itself.
If you're just linking, use --libs by itself.
Here's an example Bash command you could use to compile a single-file program:
g++ foo.cpp $(pkg-config --cflags --libs openblas) -o foo

Why Autotools Ignores Installed Static Library?

I have installed ROHC library (http://rohc-lib.org) using following commands during installation:
autoreconf -if
./configure --enable-static=yes --enable-shared=no --disable-shared --prefix=/usr
make
make install
It successfully installed static (and only static) libraries in /usr/lib directory. It contains librohc.a and librohc.la and no shared-library (i.e. librohc.so*).
I am trying to link this library with OpenVPN. I added following lines in configure.ac of OpenVPN:
AC_CHECK_HEADERS(
[rohc/rohc.h rohc/rohc_comp.h rohc/rohc_decomp.h],
,
[AC_MSG_ERROR([ROHC headers not found])]
)
AC_CHECK_LIB(
[rohc],
[rohc_compress4],
,
[AC_MSG_ERROR([ROHC library not found])]
)
But when I run make in OpenVPN source directory, I get the following error:
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -DPLUGIN_LIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/openvpn/plugins\" -Wall -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-function -g -O2 -std=c99 -lrt -o openvpn argv.o base64.o buffer.o clinat.o comp.o compstub.o comp-lz4.o crypto.o crypto_openssl.o crypto_mbedtls.o dhcp.o error.o event.o fdmisc.o forward.o fragment.o gremlin.o helper.o httpdigest.o lladdr.o init.o interval.o list.o lzo.o manage.o mbuf.o misc.o platform.o console.o console_builtin.o console_systemd.o mroute.o mss.o mstats.o mtcp.o mtu.o mudp.o multi.o ntlm.o occ.o pkcs11.o pkcs11_openssl.o pkcs11_mbedtls.o openvpn.o options.o otime.o packet_id.o perf.o pf.o ping.o plugin.o pool.o proto.o proxy.o ps.o push.o reliable.o route.o schedule.o session_id.o shaper.o sig.o socket.o socks.o ssl.o ssl_openssl.o ssl_mbedtls.o ssl_verify.o ssl_verify_openssl.o ssl_verify_mbedtls.o status.o tls_crypt.o tun.o win32.o rohc.o trunk.o cryptoapi.o ../../src/compat/libcompat.la -lnsl -lresolv -llzo2 -llz4 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lrohc
libtool: link: gcc -DPLUGIN_LIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/openvpn/plugins\" -Wall -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-function -g -O2 -std=c99 -o openvpn argv.o base64.o buffer.o clinat.o comp.o compstub.o comp-lz4.o crypto.o crypto_openssl.o crypto_mbedtls.o dhcp.o error.o event.o fdmisc.o forward.o fragment.o gremlin.o helper.o httpdigest.o lladdr.o init.o interval.o list.o lzo.o manage.o mbuf.o misc.o platform.o console.o console_builtin.o console_systemd.o mroute.o mss.o mstats.o mtcp.o mtu.o mudp.o multi.o ntlm.o occ.o pkcs11.o pkcs11_openssl.o pkcs11_mbedtls.o openvpn.o options.o otime.o packet_id.o perf.o pf.o ping.o plugin.o pool.o proto.o proxy.o ps.o push.o reliable.o route.o schedule.o session_id.o shaper.o sig.o socket.o socks.o ssl.o ssl_openssl.o ssl_mbedtls.o ssl_verify.o ssl_verify_openssl.o ssl_verify_mbedtls.o status.o tls_crypt.o tun.o win32.o rohc.o trunk.o cryptoapi.o ../../src/compat/.libs/libcompat.a -lrt -lnsl -lresolv -llzo2 -llz4 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl /usr/lib/librohc.so
gcc: /usr/lib/librohc.so: No such file or directory
Yes, /usr/lib/librohc.so does not exist, but /usr/lib/librohc.a exists. Why is it not linking with the static library /usr/lib/librohc.a at absence of .so ?
You may ask me why I am not installing shared libs of ROHC; answer is that I want to force static linking with ROHC, and when it is done I will uninstall ROHC libs.
If someone could show me how to do this static linking without installing ROHC first (like adding dependency to configure.ac or Makefile.am of OpenVPN), it would be better for me.
Note that, both OpenVPN and ROHC library require autotools.
I specified --libdir=/usr/lib64 with ./configure of ROHC library and finally the build system used the static library librohc.a when linking with OpenVPN. I installed ROHC with:
autoreconf -if
./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
make
make install
Now it installs the library as /usr/lib64/librohc.a and Compilation of OpenVPN successfully finds and links to it.
And surely, it took place in a 64 bit machine (CentOS 6). In a 32 bit environment (OpenWrt in a 32-bit MIPS router) where there is nothing like /usr/lib64, the problem in the question does not take place.

Missing asn1.h on httpd build from source

i have been trying to build httpd-2.4.43 from source and i included OpenSSL-fips-2.0.16.
However, i encountered an error during build process of httpd. see below;
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/support'
/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/srclib/apr/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -I/opt/openssl-fips-2.0.16/include -g -O2 -pthread -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE \
-I. -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/os/unix -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/include -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/srclib/apr/include -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/srclib/apr-util/include -I/usr/local/include -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/aaa -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/cache -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/core -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/database -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/filters -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/ldap -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/server -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/loggers -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/lua -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/proxy -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/http2 -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/session -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/ssl -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/test -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/server -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/md -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/arch/unix -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/dav/main -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/generators -I/root/httpd/httpd-2.4.43/modules/mappers -prefer-non-pic -static -c ab.c && touch ab.lo
In file included from ab.c:161:0:
/opt/openssl-fips-2.0.16/include/openssl/rsa.h:62:26: fatal error: openssl/asn1.h: No such file or directory
#include <openssl/asn1.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [ab.lo] Error 1
Above error message points to missing asn1.h.
I do not know where to find it. Maybe there is a missing procedure on building OpenSSL from source?
I feel i miss something when building OpenSSL from source.
Please do point me to the right direction for this.
Fixed it. Apprently, when i search for resources, i was finding the asn1.h problem not knowing that rsa.h part which includes asn1.h.
So it was found out that this was due to the *ssl-devel dependencies while building openssl.
So please install the *ssl-devel in your build envionrment
openssl-devel for RHEL/Fedora
libssl-devel for Debian
Then rebuild OpenSSL then httpd
You have to install OpenSSL development package, which is available in standard repositories of all modern Linux distributions.
Install OpenSSL development package on Debian, Ubuntu or their derivatives:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
To install OpenSSL development package on Fedora, CentOS or RHEL:
sudo yum install openssl-devel

CMake : Selecting mpich over openmpi

I am using cmake 3.10.2. I have both openmpi and mpich installed. However I need to load only mpich. So I found from the documentation the following
MPI_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX
A suffix which is appended to all names that are being looked for.
For instance you may set this to .mpich or .openmpi to prefer the one
or the other on Debian and its derivatives.
My CMake file goes like this
set(MPI_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX ".mpich")
FIND_PACKAGE(MPI REQUIRED)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${MPI_INCLUDE_DIRS})
LINK_DIRECTORIES(${MPI_LIBRARY_DIRS})
message(${MPI_INCLUDE_PATH})
However this shows
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include/openmpi/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include...
Where am I going wrong. Could you please help me with this
Also
mpicc -show
gcc -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include/openmpi -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include/openmpi/opal/mca/event/libevent2022/libevent -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include/openmpi/opal/mca/event/libevent2022/libevent/include -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include -pthread -L/usr//lib -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib -lmpi
mpicc.mpich -show
gcc -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -I/usr/include/mpich -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmpich
the best is to use modules for switch between openmpi and mpich:
$ module load mpich
$ module unload mpich
$ module load openmpi
http://modules.sourceforge.net/
The default mpicc is not your choice. You can specify it manually in the cmake file, or update the $PATH variable with your mpicc included before the default one. Personally, I installed the mpich in the /usr/local/ directory.
Regards

Compile C++ code to run on ESXi 3.5

I'm trying to compile a simple c++ program to run inside ESXi 3.5 console window. It seems I'm linking with wrong libraries... Is there a setup described somewhere - which version of G++ and libraries do I have to be using in order to do so?
Here's how I resolved the issue. I did following to compile:
Compiled using gcc under ubuntu
Ran ldd on executable
Copied all libraries that showed up as dependencies to subfolder ESXi-3.5-lib. In my case they were:
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libgcc_s.so.1
libm.so.6
libstdc++.so.5
Added following switches to gcc:
-nodefaultlibs (to not attempt to link with default libs)
-lc (prevented link error in some crt library)
-fno-stack-protector (prevented another error, some other function was missing)
Following was my final build command:
g++ file1.cpp file2.cpp file3.cpp -o output-biinary-file-name \
ESXi-3.5-lib/ld-linux.so.2 ESXi-3.5-lib/libc.so.6 ESXi-3.5-lib/libgcc_s.so.1\
ESXi-3.5-lib/libm.so.6 ESXi-3.5-lib/libstdc++.so.5 \
-nodefaultlibs -lc -m32 -fno-stack-protector