# Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C > windows平台编译步骤说明 ## 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. 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 ../../pcre-8.32.tar.gz tar -xzf ../../zlib-1.2.7.tar.gz tar -xzf ../../openssl-1.0.1e.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-8.32 \ --with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.7 --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.0.1e \ --with-select_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-ipv6 Run make: nmake -f objs/Makefile ##Documentation is available at http://nginx.org