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Am trying to install openSSL on my HP250 G4 running windows 7 64x
i downloaded it from the official GitHub and followed the install documentation
it asked to download Virtual Studio, Perl 5 with 2 modules, Make, NASM compiler, MinGW
i have no idea and never worked with those programs because am a web developer, and the cost of learning all of them just for the sake of installing openSSL is high
those are the command lines i run

perl ./configure VC-WIN64I

and 

nmake

i got an error saying ias is not recognise as internal command, code from nmake u1077.
i have reviewed this answer here
that suggested to add the path to nasm.exe in the installation folder to the environment variable PATH after the ;
then rebooted the command prompt and still nothing
i guess what needs to be achieved is to let visual studio command prompt invoke NASM compiler so that it recognises ias as a command, i googled it and found nothing
any ideas please ?

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You must use VC-WIN64A to compile openssl for Intel processors. Don't forget to remove intermediates files with a nmake clean before nmake

Arnaud Grandville
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  • i thought VC-WIN64A is for AMD and VC-WIN64I is for intel, the A stands for amd and the i stands for intel i cleaned the nmake and the 32 version worked instead VC-WIN32 –  Aug 16 '18 at 06:47
  • WIN64I denotes IA-64 (Intel Itanium) and WIN64A denotes x86-64 also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64 – Arnaud Grandville Aug 19 '18 at 08:51