Issues installing OpenSSL in prep for installing PHP

[MartinLondon1977]

Hi all,

I am quite new to PHP, etc and have recently dicovered osCommerce (

http://www.oscommerce.com),

which is basically a collection of PHP files which one moulds to create the web page. However, in order for these to work I would have to install OpenSSL, Apache, Mod SSL, Zend and of course, PHP.

Step one on my list of instructions is to enable OpenSSL. I download the files and read install.w32 (as I am installing all this on a Win98 machine in order to develop locally and then upload, as you do). The best option for me was to use cygwin (

http://www.cygwin.com)

and ActivePerl 5.6 (

http://www.activeperl.com).

I tried 5.8 but that did not get me very far.

On running cygwin I type './config' without quotes and cygwin outputs about a page of results before finishing with the message:-

"RC4_CHUNK is undefined
MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987,2000 Borland
Fatal: 'links' does not exist - don't know how to make it"

cygwin then returns to the '$' prompt. Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do here? Judging by my past experience with this this could be one of many issues to follow as I wade my way though the other five packages. :-( Having siad that, the Apache files and PHP are installer files and so I should not have too much trouble with them.

However I do not want to give up as it would be a shame to not be able to experience PHP simply becuase I cannot get the base files to install.

Any help woudl be gratefully appreciated. Martin.

 

[sleipnir214]

You might just try installing a binary version:

http://www.kix.or.jp/~fujino/openssl/

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[MartinLondon1977]

thanks sleipnir214,

why did i not think of that? Doh! May you be confined to a beer factory for a month...;-)

Martin

 

[sleipnir214]

May you be confined to a beer factory for a month....

There's the old joke about the woman who was told that her husband had drowned in a vat of beer.

When his wife asked, "Did he suffer much?", the answer was, "We don't think so. He got out twice to go to the bathroom."



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