Commit da64e0d8 authored by Andy Polyakov's avatar Andy Polyakov
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INSTALL.W32: document trouble with symlinks under MSYS.

PR: 2377
parent 88868c07
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   required. Run the installers and do whatever magic they say it takes
   to start MSYS bash shell with GNU tools on its PATH.

   N.B. Since source tar-ball can contain symbolic links, it's essential
   that you use accompanying MSYS tar to unpack the source. It will
   either handle them in one way or another or fail to extract them,
   which does the trick too. Latter means that you may safely ignore all
   "cannot create symlink" messages, as they will be "re-created" at
   configure stage by copying corresponding files. Alternative programs
   were observed to create empty files instead, which results in build
   failure.

 * Compile OpenSSL:

   $ ./config