Windows build failing - NMAKE : fatal error U1073

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 01:51:20PM +1000, Alec Taylor wrote:

> Following your guide: http://nginx.org/en/docs/howto_build_on_win32.html
> 
> With a few edits, I then ran:
> ./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-8.36
> --with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.8 --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.0.1e
> --with-select_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-ipv6
> --add-module=../ngx-fancyindex
> 
> Which succeeded. Finally I ran: `nmake -f objs/Makefile`, which gave
> the following output:
> 
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'src/os/win32/ngx_win32_config
> .h'
> Stop.
> 
> How do I build nginx on Windows?

It looks like you are trying to build from sources available in 
release tarballs.  This won't work.  Please follow the guide 
linked and clone the repository (or, alternatively, download a 
repository snapshot there).

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/