NOTES-DJGPP.md

Notes for the DOS platform with DJGPP
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 OpenSSL has been ported to DJGPP, a Unix look-alike 32-bit run-time
 environment for 16-bit DOS, but only with long filename support.
 If you wish to compile on native DOS with 8+3 filenames, you will
 have to tweak the installation yourself, including renaming files
 with illegal or duplicate names.

 You should have a full DJGPP environment installed, including the
 latest versions of DJGPP, GCC, BINUTILS, BASH, etc. This package
 requires that PERL and the PERL module `Text::Template` also be
 installed (see [NOTES-PERL.md](NOTES-PERL.md)).

 All of these can be obtained from the usual DJGPP mirror sites or
 directly at <http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp>. For help on which
 files to download, see the DJGPP "ZIP PICKER" page at
 <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html>. You also need to have
 the WATT-32 networking package installed before you try to compile
 OpenSSL. This can be obtained from <http://www.watt-32.net/>.
 The Makefile assumes that the WATT-32 code is in the directory
 specified by the environment variable WATT_ROOT. If you have watt-32
 in directory `watt32` under your main DJGPP directory, specify
 `WATT_ROOT="/dev/env/DJDIR/watt32"`.

 To compile OpenSSL, start your BASH shell, then configure for DJGPP by
 running `./Configure` with appropriate arguments:

    ./Configure no-threads --prefix=/dev/env/DJDIR DJGPP

 And finally fire up `make`. You may run out of DPMI selectors when
 running in a DOS box under Windows. If so, just close the BASH
 shell, go back to Windows, and restart BASH. Then run `make` again.

 RUN-TIME CAVEAT LECTOR
 --------------

 Quoting FAQ:

  "Cryptographic software needs a source of unpredictable data to work
   correctly.  Many open source operating systems provide a "randomness
   device" (`/dev/urandom` or `/dev/random`) that serves this purpose."

 As of version 0.9.7f DJGPP port checks upon `/dev/urandom$` for a 3rd
 party "randomness" DOS driver. One such driver, `NOISE.SYS`, can be
 obtained from <http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html>.