Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C

Prerequisites

To build nginx on the Microsoft Win32® platform you need:

Build steps

Ensure that paths to Perl, Mercurial 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.
  • Check out nginx sources from the hg.nginx.org repository. For example:
    hg clone http://hg.nginx.org/nginx
    
  • 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 ../../pcre-8.44.tar.gz
    tar -xzf ../../zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
    tar -xzf ../../openssl-1.1.1k.tar.gz
    
  • 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/pcre-8.44 \
        --with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.11 \
        --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.1.1k \
        --with-openssl-opt=no-asm \
        --with-http_ssl_module
    
  • Run make:
    nmake
    

See also

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https://nginx.org/en/docs/howto_build_on_win32.html