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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On windows, can you try downloading from github the doctor-ed zip file like
the person in the bug report said?  Lets put that bug report URL in our
download script too as a comment.
 On Oct 16, 2013 4:26 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I patched the LuaDist CMake build system to work successfully on OpenSSL
> 1.0.1e.
>
> Downloading, patching and building OpenSSL with CMake on Windows has an
> issue though (Doesn't everything being built on Windows!?)
>
> The issue is that CMake, or more precisely libarchive used by CMake
> doesn't deal with symbolic links on Windows. Even 7z doesn't deal with them
> at all well either. The source archive for OpenSSL includes symbolic links
> in the include directory.
>
> 7z outputs an ascii file with a line of text that is the relative path to
> the actual file. Not very useful, but this was at least parse-able and
> therefore fixable in CMake.
>
> CMake -E tar fails with the message: "Cannot create \". There's plenty of
> information about this, and a fix is targeted at the 2.8.12 release:
> http://www.cmake.org/Bug/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=13251
>
> It may work okay under the MSYS shell actually - I've not tried as I don't
> have it.
>
> I'm unsure how we will get around this problem on Windows.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
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