Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C

Build steps
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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.
  • Check out nginx sources from the GitHub repository: 
    git clone https://github.com/nginx/nginx.git
  • 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
  • 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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