Build OpenSSL on Windows with MSYS2

In this tutorial, we are going to build/compile OpenSSL on Windows with MSYS2.

Download and Install MSYS2 shell, from https://www.msys2.org/

Download and install Strawberry Perl from http://strawberryperl.com/

After installation open the MSYS2 shell and install the make and GCC modules into the MSYS2 environment

Install make using pacman -S make into the MSYS2 environment

$ pacman -S make

Install the GCC compiler and other tools into the MSYS2 environment using the below command.

$ pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

Download the OpenSSL source code from the GitHub release page – Below is the link to the latest release files.

In the MSYS2 shell do the configuration depending on the target architecture:

$ cd d:\openssl-openssl-3.0.7\
$ perl Configure mingw64 no-shared no-asm --prefix=/d/OpenSSL
$ make depend
$ make
$ make install
$ make clean

you will get similar files and folders after a successful build.