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I would like to use LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL on Windows, but I found no distribution yet. Did I miss it? Or is there a not too complicated way to compile it myself?

jww
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libressl has supported Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows Vista since Dec 2, 2014

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20141201141720

As of yesterday, release version 2.2.1 of libressl now supports in addition:

  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2009 (aka Windows POS, embedded)
  • Windows NT 2003-2012

To use libressl on Windows, just download it and follow the instructions included in the README. DLLs are included.

Ted Walther
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Update:

As stated in the ChangeLog of version 2.1.2 released on 2014-12-04, LibreSSL now at least support mingw-w64.

  • Added initial Windows mingw-w64 support

We would be expecting LibreSSL to support more compilers in the future, and even CMake.

Old post:

As the README suggests:

LibreSSL portable will build on any reasonably modern version of Linux, Solaris, or OSX with a standards-compliant compiler and C library.

There is currently no direct way to build it on Windows.

However, BoringSSL, another fork of OpenSSL which has CMake build scripts would build on Windows. I would think there is a chance to adapt the CMake scripts from BoringSSL to LibreSSL so that LibreSSL can be built on Windows. There might need some code changes too.

You can also give openssl-cmake a try.

mikemaccana
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The LibreSSL team stopped compiling binaries for Windows since version 2.5.5. So I compiled it. LibreSSL 3.2.0 for Windows is available at this link (https://sourceforge.net/projects/libressl-3-2-0-for-windows/files/). I needed it about a year ago, so I made some builds available.

Pedro Albanese
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Actually, LibreSSL 2.1.2 builds on Windows..

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