Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C
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Prerequisites
To build nginx on the Microsoft Win32® platform you need:
- Microsoft Visual C compiler. Microsoft Visual Studio® 8, 10, 17 are known to work.
- MSYS or MSYS2.
- Perl, if you want to build OpenSSL® and nginx with SSL support. For example ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl.
- Git client.
- PCRE, zlib and OpenSSL libraries sources.
Build steps
Ensure that paths to Perl, Git and MSYS bin directories are added to PATH environment variable before you start build. To set Visual C environment run vcvarsall.bat script from Visual C directory.
To build nginx:
- Start MSYS bash.
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Check out nginx sources from the GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/nginx/nginx.git
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Create a build and lib directories, and unpack zlib, PCRE and OpenSSL libraries
sources into lib directory:
mkdir objs mkdir objs/lib cd objs/lib tar -xzf ../../pcre2-10.39.tar.gz tar -xzf ../../zlib-1.3.1.tar.gz tar -xzf ../../openssl-3.0.14.tar.gz
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Run configure script:
auto/configure \ --with-cc=cl \ --with-debug \ --prefix= \ --conf-path=conf/nginx.conf \ --pid-path=logs/nginx.pid \ --http-log-path=logs/access.log \ --error-log-path=logs/error.log \ --sbin-path=nginx.exe \ --http-client-body-temp-path=temp/client_body_temp \ --http-proxy-temp-path=temp/proxy_temp \ --http-fastcgi-temp-path=temp/fastcgi_temp \ --http-scgi-temp-path=temp/scgi_temp \ --http-uwsgi-temp-path=temp/uwsgi_temp \ --with-cc-opt=-DFD_SETSIZE=1024 \ --with-pcre=objs/lib/pcre2-10.39 \ --with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.3.1 \ --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-3.0.14 \ --with-openssl-opt=no-asm \ --with-http_ssl_module -
Run make:
nmake
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