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11. Prerequisites 11. Prerequisites
2---------------- 2----------------
3 3
4You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL. 4You will need working installations of Zlib and libcrypto (LibreSSL /
5OpenSSL)
5 6
6Zlib 1.1.4 or 1.2.1.2 or greater (ealier 1.2.x versions have problems): 7Zlib 1.1.4 or 1.2.1.2 or greater (ealier 1.2.x versions have problems):
7http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ 8http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
8 9
9OpenSSL 0.9.6 or greater: 10libcrypto (LibreSSL or OpenSSL >= 0.9.8f)
10http://www.openssl.org/ 11LibreSSL http://www.libressl.org/ ; or
12OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/
11 13
12(OpenSSL 0.9.5a is partially supported, but some ciphers (SSH protocol 1 14LibreSSL/OpenSSL should be compiled as a position-independent library
13Blowfish) do not work correctly.) 15(i.e. with -fPIC) otherwise OpenSSH will not be able to link with it.
16If you must use a non-position-independent libcrypto, then you may need
17to configure OpenSSH --without-pie.
14 18
15The remaining items are optional. 19The remaining items are optional.
16 20
17NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure 21NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure
18OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of 22libcrypto (LibreSSL/OpenSSL) to use it. OpenSSH relies on libcrypto's
19/dev/random, or failing that, either prngd or egd 23direct support of /dev/random, or failing that, either prngd or egd
20 24
21PRNGD: 25PRNGD:
22 26
@@ -192,10 +196,11 @@ created.
192 196
193--with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary 197--with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary
194 198
195--with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your OpenSSL libraries 199--with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your Libre/OpenSSL
200libraries
196are installed. 201are installed.
197 202
198--with-ssl-engine enables OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support 203--with-ssl-engine enables Libre/OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support
199 204
200--with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to 205--with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to
201real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux. 206real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux.
@@ -254,4 +259,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
254http://www.openssh.com/ 259http://www.openssh.com/
255 260
256 261
257$Id: INSTALL,v 1.89 2014/08/19 01:36:08 djm Exp $ 262$Id: INSTALL,v 1.90 2014/08/25 23:27:29 djm Exp $