Windows build failing - NMAKE : fatal error U1073

[Thiago Farina]

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> 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.
This does not seem logical. Why it should not work?

It is common to build and install from release tarballs (at least on
Unix). Why it should be different on Windows?

-- 
Thiago Farina