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Hi,<br>
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I posted a question at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34478016/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34478016/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows</a>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm trying to build nginx
from source on Windows. I got the following done:</p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) Installed mingw, gcc,
and msys</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size:
15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 15.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) Downloaded the nginx
source code</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size:
15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 15.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3) Ran the following in the
msys console from the nginx source folder:</p>
<pre style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; overflow: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; word-wrap: normal; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">$ auto/configure --with-cc=gcc --without-http_rewrite_module --without-http_gzip_module
(output omitted)
$ make -f objs/Makefile
(output omitted)
$ make install -f objs/Makefile
(output omitted)
</code></pre>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size:
15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 15.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This produced the nginx.exe
file in the objs folder, but when I tried to run it I get the
following error:</p>
<pre style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; overflow: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; word-wrap: normal; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">$ nginx.exe
nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: CreateFile() "/usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log" failed
(3: The system cannot find the path specified)
2015/12/26 21:49:25 [emerg] 10200#9700: CreateFile() "/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf" failed
(3: The system cannot find the path specified)
</code></pre>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size:
15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 15.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But when I run<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">ls /usr/local/nginx</code><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I see that the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">conf</code><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">logs</code><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>directories are there, and
the conf directory has some files in it:</p>
<pre style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; overflow: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; word-wrap: normal; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">$ ls -l conf
total 34
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 1077 Dec 26 21:30 fastcgi.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 1077 Dec 26 21:30 fastcgi.conf.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 1007 Dec 26 21:30 fastcgi_params
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 1007 Dec 26 21:30 fastcgi_params.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 2837 Dec 26 21:30 koi-utf
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 2223 Dec 26 21:30 koi-win
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 3957 Dec 26 21:30 mime.types
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 3957 Dec 26 21:30 mime.types.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 2656 Dec 26 21:30 nginx.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 2656 Dec 26 21:30 nginx.conf.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 636 Dec 26 21:30 scgi_params
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 636 Dec 26 21:30 scgi_params.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 664 Dec 26 21:30 uwsgi_params
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 664 Dec 26 21:30 uwsgi_params.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 Admin Administrators 3610 Dec 26 21:30 win-utf
</code></pre>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size:
15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 15.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I tried to run<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">$ chmod -R 0777 conf</code><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but that did not seem to
make a difference.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size:
15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 15.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What am I doing wrong? And
how can I change it so that the logs and conf files will be
searched in the local directory of nginx.exe and not in the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">/usr/local/nginx folder</code><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(which I found after some
searching at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">msys\1.0\local\nginx</code>)?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size:
15px; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 36, 38); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 15.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks!</p>
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<p>Igal Sapir
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Lucee Core Developer
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<a href="http://lucee.org/">Lucee.org</a></p>
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