Hi, I haven't write any How to on it but below are some step by step instructions to run Asterisk on windows,
1-Install Cygwin. 2-Install build essentials in Cygwin. 3-Download Asterisk source (I used 1.4.x) and unzip it using tar (You may need to install tar manually as it is missing in some Cygwin default installations. Don't use windows unzip for as it will create some abnormal character in source and will make unexpected compile time errors) 4-Run bootstrap it will report any missing or lower version libs, prerequisite or tools. 5-You may need to manually install/upgrade tools like autoconf, automake etc depending on your Cygwin installation. 6-You manually need to download and compile termcap, ncurses. 7-Run configure. 8-Make menuselect and disable all non-required modules as it will save to resolve lot of not needed dependencies. 9-Run make 10-Resolve any missing reported by make. 11-After successful make run make install 12-Once make install okey you can run asterisk on Cygwin console and also directly run by double clicking on asterisk.exe in c:/Cygwin/usr/sbin/. Once you have compiled it you can copy asterisk.exe to any other system not having Cygwin installed by you have to care about following, 1-You must have to create required directories structure like Cygwin on system drive. 2-You must need to copy required Cygwin DLLs to new systems \windows\system32\ folder. You can identify required DLLs by trying to run asterisk.exe and it will report missing DLLs one by one. I did just for my experiment and fun and was able to make successful SIP calls using static files configuration. However I suggest to use SIPx, Yate or FreeSWITCH if you want to stick with windows as that have native windows ports and have all required features you need in a PABX or VoIP switch. Regards, Faisal Hanif -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users