Context:
I am following the guide for the open source project OpenSC https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC to compile the solution on Windows and get the opensc-pkcs11.dll module to use it for communications (such as OpenSSH) with HSM's via PKCS#11 standard. Currently I am using the latest stable release 0.21.0 (msi installer) and it works perfectly. However when I use https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/Compiling-on-Windows guide to compile the solution using Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt I can successfully build the libraries however the opensc-pkcs11.dll always returns pkcs11: 0x5: CKR_GENERAL_ERROR when I try to use it and I am not sure what am I missing here.
Setup:
- git clone https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC.git
- git checkout 30180986a08cf71fe4af4b50251a8bb5b1ab95af (0.21.0 commit for the right version)
- Manually Creating Built Source Files
- nmake /f Makefile.mak
Building it for x64, with x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019.
That should be it according to the guidelines as I do not need openpace/openssl/zlib to compile the opensc-pkcs11 as far as I understand.
Problem summary:
- If I download from releases https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases version OpenSC-0.21.0 the compiled opensc-pkcs11.dll works as expected
- If I compile it from source code based on v0.21.0 commit I get 0x5: CKR_GENERAL_ERROR when trying to use the library for e.g. OpenSSH, tested that this happens for other/previous commits as well, there for I suspect that I am missing something here.
Has anyone experienced the same issue? Maybe there is some build config anyone could share so I can understand what am I missing here?
