============================================================================= Introduction ============================================================================= OpenSSL is a well-known open source implementation of SSL/TLS protocols. The core library implements the cryptographic and SSL/TLS functions and also provides various utility functions. The OpenSSL library is widely used in variety of security products development as base crypto provider. (See http://www.openssl.org/ for more information about OpenSSL). UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a specification detailing the interfaces between OS and platform firmware. Several security features were introduced (e.g. Authenticated Variable Service, Driver Signing, etc) from UEFI 2.2 (http://www.uefi.org/). These security features highly depend on the cryptography. This HOWTO documents OpenSSL building under UEFI/EDKII environment. ============================================================================= OpenSSL-Version ============================================================================= EDKII supports building with the latest release of OpenSSL. The latest official release is OpenSSL-1.1.0g (Released at 2017-Nov-02). NOTE: Only latest release version was fully validated. And no guarantees on build & functionality if using other versions. ============================================================================= HOW to Install OpenSSL for UEFI Building ============================================================================= OpenSSL repository was added as one submodule of EDKII project. The user can use the following commands to clone both main EDKII repo and openssl submodule: 1) Add the "--recursive" flag to the git clone command: $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 or 2) Manually initialize and update the submodules after the clone operation on main project: $ git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 $ git submodule update --init --recursive And use the following combined commands to pull the remote submodule updates (e.g. Updating the new supported OpenSSL release tag): $ git pull --recurse-submodules && \ git submodule update --recursive --remote ============================================================================= About process_files.pl ============================================================================= "process_files.pl" is one Perl script which runs the OpenSSL Configure, then processes the resulting file list into our local OpensslLib.inf and OpensslLibCrypto.inf. This only needs to be done once by the maintainer / developer when updating to a new version of OpenSSL (or changing options, etc.). Normal users do not need do this, since the results are already stored in the EDKII git repository for them.