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<article title="How to build nginx on the Win32 Platform with Visual C"
         link="/en/docs/howto_build_on_win32.html"
         lang="en">

<section title="Prerequisites">

<para>
To build nginx on the Win32 platform you need:

<list>

<item>
Visuial C compiler. Visual Studio 8 and 10 are known to work.
</item>

<item>
<link url="http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS">MSYS</link>.
</item>

<item>
Perl, if you want to build openssl and nginx with ssl support.
For example <link url="http://www.activestate.com/activeperl">ActivePerl</link>
or <link url="http://strawberryperl.com">Strawberry Perl</link>.
</item>

<item>
Subversion client. Choose any from the <link url="http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#windows">list</link>
</item>

<item>
<link url="http://www.pcre.org">PCRE</link>, <link url="http://zlib.net">zlib</link>
and <link url="http://www.openssl.org">openssl</link> libraries sources.
</item>
</list>

</para>

</section>

<section name="build_steps"
         title="Build steps">

<para>
Ensure that paths to Perl, Subversion 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.
</para>

<para>

To build nginx:
<list>

<item>
Start MSYS bash
</item>

<item>
Check out nginx sources from the svn.nginx.org repository. For example:
<programlisting>
svn co svn://svn.nginx.org/tags/release-1.1.6
</programlisting>
</item>

<item>
Create a build directory and lib directory, and unpack zlib, PCRE and openssl libraries
sources into lib directory:
<programlisting>
mkdir objs
mkdir objs/lib
cd objs/lib
unzip ../../pcre-8.12.zip
tar -xzf ../../zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf ../../openssl-1.0.0e.tar.gz
</programlisting>
</item>

<item>
Run configure script:
<programlisting>
auto/configure --with-cc=cl --builddir=objs --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 \
--with-cc-opt=-DFD_SETSIZE=1024 --with-pcre=objs/lib/pcre-8.12 \
--with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.5 --withopenssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.0.0e \
--with-select_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-ipv6
</programlisting>
</item>

<item>
Run make:
<programlisting>
nmake -f objs/Makefile
</programlisting>
</item>


</list>

</para>

</section>

<section name="see_also"
         title="See also">

<para>
<list>

<item>
<a href="/en/docs/windows.xml"/>
</item>

</list>
</para>

</section>
</article>