Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C

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

• Microsoft Visual C compiler. Microsoft Visual Studio^® 8 and 10 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.
• Mercurial client.
• PCRE, zlib and OpenSSL libraries sources.

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 freenginx.org/hg/nginx repository. For example:

  hg clone http://freenginx.org/hg/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 ../../pcre2-10.39.tar.gz
  tar -xzf ../../zlib-1.3.tar.gz
  tar -xzf ../../openssl-3.0.10.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/pcre2-10.39 \
      --with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.3 \
      --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-3.0.10 \
      --with-openssl-opt=no-asm \
      --with-http_ssl_module
  

• Run make:

  nmake
  

• freenginx for Windows