Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C

Prerequisites

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.

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 ../../pcre2-10.39.tar.gz
tar -xzf ../../zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
tar -xzf ../../openssl-1.1.1m.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-1.2.11 \
    --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.1.1m \
    --with-openssl-opt=no-asm \
    --with-http_ssl_module

Run make:
```
nmake
```

Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C

Prerequisites

Build steps

See also