There are two jazz musicians who are great buddies. They hang out and play together for years, virtually inseparable. Unfortunately, one of them is struck by a truck and killed. About a week later his friend wakes up in the middle of the night with a st… more »

A while ago I wrote about Building OpenSSL 1.0.2 for Android on Windows with Visual Studio 2017, and also how to build OpenSSL 1.1.1 for iOS/iPadOS. This time, I will show how to build OpenSSL 1.1.1 for Android on Windows with the Visual Studio 2017 nat… more »

Building openssl for iOS has never been easier than with version 1.1.1. Required software for this purpose is a decent Mac with XCode and XCode command line tools installed. more »

Unfortunately, in 2019 the venerable msdn magazine's last issue appeared. In mid nineties I had a subscription of its predecessor, the Microsoft Systems Journal which was later converted into an msdn magazine subscription. For archiving purposes I was l… more »

Building OpenSSL is an arcane thing to do sometimes. I have nowhere on the web found a real simple solution to build OpenSSL for Android that met the number one requirement for me: Being able to build on a build host (or development host) that runs Wind… more »