The purpose of the OpenSC installer is to distribute pre-built binary components of OpenSC and sub-projects to the end-user computer, manage simple configuration entries (like required registry keys) and removal of the components.

The contents of the package is:

• OpenSC core (and dependencies)
  • OpenSSL
  • zlib

• The default installation location is C:\Program Files\Opensc Project\OpenSC or equivalent.
  • Only *.exe, *.profile and opensc.conf files are installed to the installation directory. To make applications like Firefox find the .dll dependencies, *.dll are installed to C:\Windows\system32 or equivalent.
• Registry keys that OpenSC can use:
  • OpenSC: common key Software\OpenSC Project\OpenSC (names are case-preserved, but not case-sensitive)
    • ConfigFile - path to OpenSC config, searched from HKCU and HKLM, HKLM set to C:\Program Files\OpenSC Project\opensc.conf on install
    • ProfileDir - path to OpenSC PKCS#15 initialization profiles, searched from HKCU and HKLM, HKLM set to C:\Program Files\OpenSC Project\OpenSC\profiles on install
• pkcs11-spy: common key Software\OpenSC Project\PKCS11-Spy
  • Module - path to the real PKCS#11 module to load, searched from HKLM, HKCU
  • Output - path to the log output file, searched from HKLM, HKCU

• See the Home page for release downloads.
• PreReleases and Nightly Builds are usually available as well.

• Windows x86 or x64 (tested with Windows XP SP3 x86 and Windows 7 SP1 x64).
  • NB! All packages should be installed with default settings to default locations for the packaged scripts to work!
• Windows Platform SDK (contains Visual Studio 2008 compiler)
  • Windows 8 will remove this option: http:https://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/microsoft-pulling-free-development-tools-for-windows-8-desktop-apps/
• Installed CNG SDK
• For building the MSI installer: WiX toolset 3.6.x (3.6.1629.0 used, installing the Wix36.exe from snapshot directory works)
• (optional) For building .exe installer: Inno Setup
• OpenSSL, either built from source or a pre-built binary from Shining Light Productions. Build scripts are tuned to the pre-built package.
• zlib
  • Unpack to c:\zlib-1.2.5 and compile from Platform SDK command prompt
    • x86: SetEnv.cmd /x86 /Release and nmake /f win32\Makefile.msc LOC="-DASMV -DASMINF" OBJA="inffas32.obj match686.obj" zlib.lib
    • x64: SetEnv.cmd /x64 /Release and nmake /f win32\Makefile.msc AS=ml64 LOC="-DASMV -DASMINF -I." OBJA="inffasx64.obj gvmat64.obj inffas8664.obj" zlib.lib
• If building from SourceCode repository and not from a snapshot targzip:
  • MinGW/MSYS (install the basic development environment, the last option in the list) for autoconf/automake
  • pkg.m4 from pkg-config to be placed into c:\mingw\share\aclocal. If still encountering problems on ./configure time, also put pkg.m4 to c:\mingw\share\aclocal-1.11
• Check out the build snippets on Nightly Builds

The following has been done on Ubuntu 16.04, x86_64

• Building the .exe installer requires Mingw32 (mingw32-runtime >= 3.15.2) and Wine (for running Inno Setup)

$ sudo apt-get install binutils-mingw-w64-i686 binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 docbook-xsl gcc-mingw-w64-i686 gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 libpcsclite-dev mingw-w64 wine xsltproc gengetopt

• You'll need Inno Setup, so fetch and install it (with defaults)

$ wget http:https://www.jrsoftware.org/download.php/is.exe
$ wine is.exe

• Check out OpenSC:

$ git clone [email protected]:OpenSC/OpenSC.git
$ cd OpenSC

• Build the windows libraries:

$ export HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32
$ ./bootstrap 
$ unset CC; unset CXX; ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --disable-openssl --disable-readline --disable-zlib --prefix=${PWD}/win32/opensc
$ make && make install

• Build the installer:

$  wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Inno\ Setup\ 5/ISCC.exe ./win32/OpenSC.iss
# build log removed
Successful compile (2.170 sec). Resulting Setup program filename is:
Z:\home\.....\OpenSC\win32\Output\OpenSC-0.16.0.exe

• Use the installer .exe from win32/Output/OpenSC-0.16.0.exe
• Copy the dll files from the win32/bin folder to the location of the installation in windows