nginx build on Windows

Environment and Tools

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
• MinGW (which including Msys)
• Perl, such as ActivePerl to build Openssl
• ThirdParty libraries source: PCRE, zlib and Openssl
• Version: nginx 1.13.9; PCRE 8.40; Openssl 1.1.0g; zlib 1.2.11

You can download the library source code tar.gz and extract them to the objs/lib folder. This repository includes them already.

Note: The version in the Openssl folder name should be removed because in the file auto\lib\openssl\makefile.msvc the folder name is without version information.

Build Steps

1. Open the "Developer Command Prompt for VS2015". Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat".
2. Run "C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat" to open the MINGW32 environment.
3. Enter the repository folder. Run the command

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-8.40 \
--with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.11 \
--with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl \
--with-openssl-opt=no-asm \
--with-select_module  \
--with-http_ssl_module \

4. Run "nmake -f objs/Makefile".
5. The nginx.exe should be generated in objs folder.