# Building nginx from Source on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [December 27, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows/243725 "2015-12-27T07:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows/243725/1 "2015-12-27T07:15:02Z")
Hi, I posted a question at > – copied below: I’m trying to build nginx from source on Windows. I got the following done: 1. Installed mingw, gcc, and msys 2. Downloaded the nginx source code 3. Ran the following in the msys console from the nginx source folder: |$ 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) | This produced the nginx.exe file in the objs folder, but when I tried to run it I get the following error: |$ 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) | But when I run|ls /usr/local/nginx|I see that the|conf|and|logs|directories are there, and the conf directory has some files in it: |$ 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 | I tried to run|$ chmod -R 0777 conf|but that did not seem to make a difference. 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|/usr/local/nginx folder|(which I found after some searching at|msys\1.0\local\nginx|)? Thanks! – Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer [Lucee.org](http://Lucee.org) [http://lucee.org/](http://lucee.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Igal_S_Lucee.org)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows/243725/2 "2015-12-27T20:44:40Z")
update: so I ran the following command: auto/configure --with-cc=gcc --prefix= --conf-path=conf/nginx.conf –pid-path=nginx.pid --http-log-path=logs/access.log –error-log-path=logs/error.log–without-http\_gzip\_module –without-http\_rewrite\_module and it creates the objs/Makefile (35kb) and Makefile (1kb) and directory structure of the sources. there is also an autoconf.err file with a single line in it: checking for gcc -pipe switch running: make -f objs/Makefile populates the directory structure with .o files, and produces nginx.exe which is about 3.14 MB (3,293,712 bytes). can I just use that file or do I still need to run “make install”? running make install -f objs/Makefile generates an error: test -d ‘’ || mkdir -p ‘’ mkdir: `’: No such file or directory make: \*\*\* [install] Error 1 running the nginx.exe file creates two processes named nginx, but requests to localhost:8080 (I changed the port in nginx.conf) hang, and error.log shows the following: 2015/12/27 11:22:48 [alert] 10032#9464: GetQueuedCompletionStatus() returned operation error (1236: The network connection was aborted by the local system) 2015/12/27 11:22:48 [alert] 10032#9464: \*1 connection already closed while waiting for request, client: 127.0.0.1, server: 0.0.0.0:8080 ---
**Author:** ![Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Igal_S_Lucee.org)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows/243725/3 "2015-12-28T15:53:45Z")
Hello! On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:44:16AM -0800, Igal @ [Lucee.org](http://Lucee.org) wrote: > update: so I ran the following command: > > auto/configure --with-cc=gcc --prefix= --conf-path=conf/nginx.conf > –pid-path=nginx.pid --http-log-path=logs/access.log > –error-log-path=logs/error.log–without-http\_gzip\_module > –without-http\_rewrite\_module The “–with-select\_module” option is missing, and that’s what causes your troubles. […] > populates the directory structure with .o files, and produces nginx.exe > which is about 3.14 MB (3,293,712 bytes). can I just use that file or do I > still need to run “make install”? running Running “make install” won’t do anything good with an empty prefix. Just run the nginx.exe binary. See also this howto article: > **[Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C](http://nginx.org/en/docs/howto_build_on_win32.html)** It describes how to build nginx using MS Visual C as currently done for official win32 builds. – Maxim D. > **[nginx](http://nginx.org/)** ---
**Author:** ![Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Igal_S_Lucee.org)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows/243725/4 "2015-12-28T20:45:15Z")
Thank you, Maxim! I prefer to build with gcc if that is possible. MS Visual C is a mess IMO. As a Java developer I’m used to more intuitive tools and options, I guess. I will try to add --with-select\_module and hopefully that will do the trick. I will report back once I have some findings. ---
**Author:** ![Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Igal_S_Lucee.org)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows/243725/5 "2015-12-28T20:49:56Z")
Hello! On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:44:32AM -0800, Igal @ [Lucee.org](http://Lucee.org) wrote: > Thank you, Maxim! > > I prefer to build with gcc if that is possible. MS Visual C is a mess IMO. > As a Java developer I’m used to more intuitive tools and options, I guess. > > I will try to add --with-select\_module and hopefully that will do the trick. > I will report back once I have some findings. MinGW’s gcc is expected to work fine as well. The difference is that you have to specify --with-cc=gcc (instead of cl) and run make instead of nmake. – Maxim D. > **[nginx](http://nginx.org/)** ---
**Author:** ![Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Igal\_S\_Lucee.org](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Igal_S_Lucee.org)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-nginx-from-source-on-windows/243725/6 "2016-12-03T19:31:52Z")
Hey! I found an updated guide on how to install nginx from source code here > **[Install nginx from source code](https://tutorials.technology/tutorials/00-install-nginx-from-source.html)** > > Learn how to setup up a nginx server from the source code.