Many thanks to both Andrew and Maksym for such detailed replies - really helpful!
It seems that Visual Studio is the most popular way to go (at least from my sample size of N=2). Would be good to hear from Msys + Mingw/gcc people too. I promise we will document our process in tedious detail once we have something running. thanks again Brian ________________________________ From: Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> Sent: Thursday 4 March 2021 15:44 To: naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [naviserver-devel] Recommended approach to building Naviserver on Windows? On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 10:24:42AM +0000, Brian Fenton wrote: > I took a look at the install documentation here > https://bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver/src/master/ and I noticed that > there are 3 approaches described for compiling and installing on Windows. > Which one of the 3 is the preferred approach within the community? The only approach I have extensive experience with is using the Microsoft C compiler natively on Windows. That works. I installed "Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition 16.5", and haven't had any reason to look for a newer version yet. In the installer, I checked only the "Desktop development with C++" Workload, and otherwise left everything else set to defaults. Here are my notes to Compile and Install NaviServer on Windows, using the command-line MSVCC compiler: (I believe this info was up-to-date around 2020-07, using the NaviServer head code from c. 2020-06-14.) 1. To compile we need "include/nsversion.h", which is auto-generated by "include/nsversion.h.in", so ou have two choices: Either (bizarrely), run configure on Linux before building on Windows! Surprisingly, this works and is how I did it for a long time. Or if you don't like that, or don't have Linux available, use the "win32-util/configure.tcl" script instead. Actually you don't need to run it yourself at all, as "Makefile.win32" does it for you. 2. If you already built Linux NaviServer in that same directory, run make clean there to remove the Linux object files. (TODO: It would be so much nicer to have separate Build-* subdirectories...) 3. As the instructions in "naviserver/Makefile.win32" say, make sure you edit "include/Makefile.build, changing the "Makefile.module" line to say "Makefile.win32" instead! If you do not you will get cryptic nmake errors. 4. In a Windows Command Prompt window, Build NaviServer like this, for 64-bit: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat" z: & cd Z:\src\web\ns-fork-myfork\naviserver nmake -f Makefile.win32 clean-core clean-mod all-core all-mod 5. Again from the Command Prompt, run this little script to properly copy all the files to their installed locations: cd Z:\src\web\ns-fork-myfork\naviserver\ tclsh ./win32-util/install-nsd.tcl -i 6. Test plain NaviServer in the foreground, e.g. like so: C:\web\nsd4-myfork-20200411-1\bin\nsd.exe -t C:\web\nsd4-myfork-20200411-1\conf\simple-config.tcl -f Note that by default the "install-nsd.tcl" script above does NOT overwrite the installed binaries, instead it installs to a similar directory alongside it, with a timestamp in the name, e.g., "nsd4-myfork-20040927T190908\". You are free to rename that directory later to whatever you want (because nothing inside it embeds the directory name). You can also use the "install-nsd.tcl" script's "-f" and "-t" switches to control what directory the install script copies from and to, but normally the defaults are what you want. If run without any arguments, "install-nsd.tcl" will show you its defaults. -- Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
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