boringssl/BUILDING
Brian Smith dc94b54708 Clean up use of Windows Platform SDK headers.
Define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN before including Windows Platform SDK
headers to preempt naming conflicts and to make the build faster. Avoid
including those headers in BoringSSL headers. Document that Platform
SDK 8.1 or later is required on Windows.

Change-Id: I907ada21dc722527ea37e839c71c5157455a7003
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/3100
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
2015-01-28 20:36:49 +00:00

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Build Prerequisites:
* CMake[1] 2.8.8 or later is required.
* Perl 5.6.1 or later is required. On Windows, Strawberry Perl and MSYS Perl
have both been reported to work.
* On Windows you currently must use Ninja[2] to build; on other platforms,
it is not required, but recommended, because it makes builds faster.
* If you need to build Ninja from source, then a recent version of
Python[3] is required (Python 2.7.5 works).
* On Windows only, Yasm[4] is required.
* A C compiler is required. On Windows, MSVC 12 (Visual Studio 2013) or later
with Platform SDK 8.1 or later are supported. Recent versions of GCC and
Clang should work on non-Windows platforms, and maybe on Windows too.
* Bash is required for running some tests, but not for building.
* Go[5] is required for running some tests, but not for building. Note that
these tests do not work on Windows.
Using Ninja (note the 'N' is capitalized in the cmake invocation):
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -GNinja ..
ninja
Using makefiles (does not work on Windows):
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
You usually don't need to run cmake again after changing CMakeLists.txt files
because the build scripts will detect changes to them and rebuild themselves
automatically.
Note that the default build flags in the top-leve CMakeLists.txt are for
debugging - optimisation isn't enabled.
If you want to cross-compile then there are example toolchain files for 32-bit
Intel and ARM in util/. Wipe out the build directory, recreate it and run cmake
like this:
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../util/arm-toolchain.cmake -GNinja ..
If you want to build as a shared library you need to tweak the STATIC tags in
the CMakeLists.txts and also define BORINGSSL_SHARED_LIBRARY and
BORINGSSL_IMPLEMENTATION. On Windows, where functions need to be tagged with
"dllimport" when coming from a shared library, you need just
BORINGSSL_SHARED_LIBRARY defined in the code which #includes the BoringSSL
headers.
Known Limitations on Windows:
* Versions of cmake since 3.0.2 have a bug in its Ninja generator that causes
yasm to output warnings "yasm: warning: can open only one input file, only
the last file will be processed". These warnings can be safely ignored.
The cmake bug is http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15253.
* cmake can generate Visual Studio projects, but the generated project files
don't have steps for assembling the assembly language source files, so they
currently cannot be used to build BoringSSL.
* The tests written in Go do not work.
[1] http://www.cmake.org/download/
[2] https://martine.github.io/ninja/
[3] https://www.python.org/downloads/
[4] http://yasm.tortall.net/
Either ensure yasm.exe is in %PATH% or configure CMAKE_ASM_NASM_COMPILER
appropriately.
[5] https://golang.org/dl/