Compiling OpenSSL 1.0.2d on 64-bit Cygwin

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Out of the box I couldn’t get OpenSSL to compile on 64-bit Cygwin, below are the steps I used to successfully compile it.

  1. Use “tar xf openssl-1.0.2d.tar.gz” to decompress the source
  2. Add  options=”$options no-asm” to line 913 of config
  3. Run ./config
  4. Change -march=i486 to -march=x86-64
  5. Run make
  6. All done

Note that I had to use tar to decompress it as 7zip wreaked the symlinks used in there which caused some #includes to fail.