Building and Installing the ACE_SSL Library

The first step for all platforms is to build and install the OpenSSL distribution. The ACE_SSL library must then be built according to the instructions below.

Unix

1. Make sure the OpenSSL header file directory is in your compiler's include path, and that OpenSSL libraries are in your library link/load path (e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH). If you installed OpenSSL into a set of directories unknown by the compiler, set the SSL_ROOT environment variable to point to the top level directory of your OpenSSL distribution, i.e. the one containing OpenSSL's include and lib directories.
2. Build ACE as described above. When building ACE, add ssl=1 to your make command line invocation, or add it to your platform_macros.GNU file.
3. Build the ACE_SSL library in the <tt>$ACE_ROOT/ace/SSL</tt> directory. The ACE_ROOT environment variable should be set prior to this point.

Microsoft Visual Studio

1. Set the SSL_ROOT environment variable to the location of the directory containing the OpenSSL inc32 and out32dll directories.
2. Add ssl=1 to your MPC $ACE_ROOT/bin/MakeProjectCreator/config/default.features or $ACE_ROOT/local.features file.
3. At the moment you are using OpenSSL v1.1 or newer also add openssl11=1 to your MPC $ACE_ROOT/bin/MakeProjectCreator/config/default.features or $ACE_ROOT/local.features file.
4. Re-run MPC to add support for building the ACE_SSL library to your MSVC++ workspaces and projects.
5. Open the ACE.sln solution, and refer to the ACE build and installation instructions above for details on creating a config.h configuration header for this platform. Once the config.h file has been created, build the ACE_SSL project.

Embarcadero C++

Support for building ACE's ACE_SSL library and TAO's SSLIOP pluggable protocol with Embarcadero C++ does exist.

1. Set the SSL_ROOT environment variable to the location of the directory containing the OpenSSL inc32 and out32 directories.
2. Add ssl=1 to your MPC $ACE_ROOT/bin/MakeProjectCreator/config/default.features or $ACE_ROOT/local.features file, and re-run MPC to add support for building the ACE_SSL library to your Embarcadero C++ makefiles.
3. Build ACE and TAO.

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