compile openssl for mingw

I was googling a correct step to build openssl with mingw. I followed different posts from different people, none of them give me anything good. After a whole afternoon of trying and failing, eventually, I got it right with following steps:

1. install cygwin on my PC. To avoid too much trying and failing, I have installed the full cygwin. Storage space is cheap but time is very expensive.

2. install mingw

3. download openssl from openssl.org. I used 0.9.8k

4. untar/unzip 0.9.8k package to cygwin how directory

5. start Cygwin xterm (ya, Cygwin not msys)

6. in the xterm, go to openssl-0.9.8k directory that you just unpacked

7. ./Configure mingw

8. make

The steps above create static library that can be used with mingw. To create the dll, you need to do:

$ echo EXPORTS > libcrypto.def

$ nm libcrypto.a | grep ' T _' | sed 's,^.* T _,,' >> libcrypto.def

$ dllwrap -o libcrypto.dll --def libcrypto.def libcrypto.a -lws2_32 -lgdi32

$ echo EXPORTS > libssl.def

$ nm libssl.a | grep 'T _' | sed 's,^.* T _,,' >> libssl.def

$ dllwrap -o libssl.dll --def libssl.def libssl.a libcrypto.dll

After this, you can copy the *.a to /mingw/lib and *.dll to /ming/bin