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author | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2013-03-09 15:38:50 +0000 |
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committer | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2013-03-09 15:38:50 +0000 |
commit | 93ac5d318199794c6d4439f00f3e7e03ef250af4 (patch) | |
tree | ef79d77d49747abad277e95f0bf8af0a6c6e7ecc /doc | |
parent | 4ec985d76d3afef2c22bd10e1db85caf982ff22e (diff) |
Document new external lib options
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/building.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/building.rst b/doc/building.rst index cc6f0af5d..3e31fd779 100644 --- a/doc/building.rst +++ b/doc/building.rst @@ -233,11 +233,9 @@ more opportunities for interprocedural optimizations. Modules Relying on Third Party Libraries ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -There are a fairly large number of modules included with Botan. Some -of these are extremely useful, while others are only necessary in very -unusual circumstances. Most are loaded (or not) automatically as -necessary, but some require external libraries are thus must be -enabled at build time; these include: +Currently ``configure.py`` cannot detect if external libraries are +available, so using them is controlled explicitly at build time +by the user using - ``--with-bzip2`` enables the filters providing bzip2 compression and decompression. Requires the bzip2 development libraries to be @@ -247,14 +245,20 @@ enabled at build time; these include: and decompression. Requires the zlib development libraries to be installed. + - ``--with-lzma`` enables the filters providing lzma compression and + decompression. Requires the lzma development libraries to be + installed. + + - ``--with-sqlite3`` enables storing TLS session information to an + encrypted SQLite database. + - ``--with-gnump`` adds an alternative engine for public key cryptography that uses the GNU MP library. GNU MP 4.1 or later is required. - ``--with-openssl`` adds an engine that uses OpenSSL for some public key operations and ciphers/hashes. OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later is - required. Note that OpenSSL's versions are not always faster than - the versions built into botan. + required. Multiple Builds ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |