And here is the rest of Hirokazu Yamamoto's patch for VS6.0 support. Thanks Hiro!
(This time, it's the correct branch :)
diff --git a/PC/VC6/readme.txt b/PC/VC6/readme.txt
index cfa549f..79262ab 100644
--- a/PC/VC6/readme.txt
+++ b/PC/VC6/readme.txt
@@ -199,12 +199,10 @@
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
as this is used by the OpenSSL build process. Complain to them <wink>.
- The MSVC project simply invokes PCBuild/build_ssl.py to perform
+ The MSVC project simply invokes PC/VC6/build_ssl.py to perform
the build. This Python script locates and builds your OpenSSL
installation, then invokes a simple makefile to build the final .pyd.
- Win9x users: see "Win9x note" below.
-
build_ssl.py attempts to catch the most common errors (such as not
being able to find OpenSSL sources, or not being able to find a Perl
that works with OpenSSL) and give a reasonable error message.
@@ -216,30 +214,6 @@
build_ssl.py/MSVC isn't clever enough to clean OpenSSL - you must do
this by hand.
- Win9x note: If, near the start of the build process, you see
- something like
-
- C:\Code\openssl-0.9.6g>set OPTS=no-asm
- Out of environment space
-
- then you're in trouble, and will probably also see these errors near
- the end of the process:
-
- NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make
- 'crypto\md5\asm\m5_win32.asm'
- Stop.
- NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make
- 'C:\Code\openssl-0.9.6g/out32/libeay32.lib'
- Stop.
-
- You need more environment space. Win9x only has room for 256 bytes
- by default, and especially after installing ActivePerl (which fiddles
- the PATH envar), you're likely to run out. KB Q230205
-
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q230205
-
- explains how to edit CONFIG.SYS to cure this.
-
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