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.
• Perl, if you want to build OpenSSL^® and nginx with SSL support. For example ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl.
• Subversion^® client. Choose any from the list
• PCRE, zlib and OpenSSL libraries sources.

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.

To build nginx:

• Start MSYS bash.
• Check out nginx sources from the svn.nginx.org repository. For example:

  svn co svn://svn.nginx.org/tags/release-1.3.11
  

• 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
  unzip ../../pcre-8.31.zip
  tar -xzf ../../zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
  tar -xzf ../../openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz
  

• Run configure script:

  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-8.31 \
  --with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.5 --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.0.1c \
  --with-select_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-ipv6
  

• Run make:

  nmake -f objs/Makefile
  

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