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<p>There are many important points to consider before you begin compiling
Apache. See <a href="windows.html">Using Apache with Microsoft
Windows</a> before you begin.</p>
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<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#unixsrcbuild">Building from Unix sources</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#workspacebuild">Developer Studio Workspace IDE Build</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#exportingmakfiles">Exporting command-line .mak files</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#projectcomponents-warn">Warning about building Apache from the development tree</a></li>
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<h2><a name="requirements" id="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
<p>Compiling Apache requires the following environment to be
properly installed:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Disk Space</p>
<p>Make sure you have at least 200 MB of free disk space
available. After installation Apache requires approximately
80 MB of disk space, plus space for log and cache files,
which can grow rapidly. The actual disk space requirements
will vary considerably based on your chosen configuration and
any third-party modules or libraries, especially when OpenSSL
is also built. Because many files are text and very easily
compressed, NTFS filesystem compression cuts these requirements
in half.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Appropriate Patches</p>
<p>The httpd binary is built with the help of several patches to
third party packages, which ensure the released code is buildable
and debuggable. These patches are available and distributed from <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/patches_applied/">http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/patches_applied/</a>
and are recommended to be applied to obtain identical results as the
"official" ASF distributed binaries.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (Visual Studio 97) or later.</p>
<p>Apache can be built using the command line tools, or from
within the Visual Studio IDE Workbench. The command line
build requires the environment to reflect the <code>PATH</code>,
<code>INCLUDE</code>, <code>LIB</code> and other variables
<div class="note">You may want the Visual Studio Processor Pack for your older
version of Visual Studio, or a full (not Express) version of newer
Visual Studio editions, for the ml.exe assembler. This will allow
you to build OpenSSL, if desired, using the more efficient assembly
code implementation.</div>
<div class="note">Only the Microsoft compiler tool chain is actively supported by
the active httpd contributors. Although the project regularly accepts
patches to ensure MinGW and other alternative builds work and improve
upon them, they are not actively maintained and are often broken in
the course of normal development.</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Updated Microsoft Windows Platform SDK, February 2003 or later.</p>
<p>An appropriate Windows Platform SDK is included by default in the
and later, these users can ignore these steps unless explicitly choosing
a newer or different version of the Platform SDK.</p>
<p>To use Visual C++ 6.0 or 7.0 (Studio 2000 .NET), the Platform SDK
script (installed by the Platform SDK) before starting the command
the Platform SDK for Visual Studio Express versions (2003 and later)
should adjust the default environment appropriately.</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\VCVARS32"<br />
"c:\Program Files\Platform SDK\setenv.bat"
</code></p></div>
</li>
<li>
<p>Perl and awk</p>
<p>Several steps recommended here require a perl interpreter during
the build preparation process, but it is otherwise not required.</p>
<p>To install Apache within the build system, several files are
accomplishes the task of modifying configuration files upon
installation. Brian Kernighan's
<a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/">http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/</a>
site has a compiled native Win32 binary,
<a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk95.exe">http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk95.exe</a> which
will not perform substitutions in the installed .conf files.
You must manually modify the installed .conf files to allow
the server to start. Search and replace all "@token@" tags
as appropriate.</div>
from the PATH, or executable path specified in the menu option
Tools -> Options -> (Projects ->) Directories. Ensure
awk.exe is in your system path.</div>
<div class="note">Also note that if you are using Cygwin tools
file. The Windows command shell does not recognize symlinks, and
because of this building InstallBin will fail. A workaround is
before attempting to use any gawk port.</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>[Optional] zlib library (for <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code>)</p>
<p>Zlib must be installed into a <code>srclib</code> subdirectory named
<code>zlib</code>. This must be built in-place. Zlib can be obtained
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code> is confirmed to work correctly with
version 1.2.3.</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
nmake -f win32\Makefile.msc<br />
nmake -f win32\Makefile.msc test
</code></p></div>
</li>
<li>
<p>[Optional] OpenSSL libraries (for <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code>
<div class="note">The OpenSSL library is cryptographic software. The country
in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import,
software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your
country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import,
possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see
if this is permitted. See
for more information.</div>
<p>Configuring and building OpenSSL requires perl to be installed.</p>
<p>OpenSSL must be installed into a <code>srclib</code> subdirectory
named <code>openssl</code>, obtained from
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code> or the <code>abs.exe</code> project, which
is ab.c with SSL support enabled. To prepare OpenSSL to be linked
to Apache mod_ssl or abs.exe, and disable patent encumbered features
in OpenSSL, you might use the following build commands:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
perl Configure no-rc5 no-idea enable-mdc2 enable-zlib VC-WIN32
ms\do_masm.bat<br />
nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
</code></p></div>
<div class="note">It is not advisable to use zlib-dynamic, as that transfers
the cost of deflating SSL streams to the first request which must
load the zlib dll. Note the suggested patch enables the -L flag to
work with windows builds, corrects the name of zdll.lib and ensures
.pdb files are generated for troubleshooting. If the assembler is
not installed, you would add no-asm above and use ms\do_ms.bat
instead of the ms\do_masm.bat script.</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>[Optional] Database libraries (for <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_dbd.html">mod_dbd</a></code>
<p>The apr-util library exposes dbm (keyed database) and dbd (query
oriented database) client functionality to the httpd server and its
modules, such as authentication and authorization. The sdbm dbm and
odbc dbd providers are compiled unconditionally.</p>
<p>The dbd support includes the Oracle instantclient package, MySQL,
PostgreSQL and sqlite. To build these all, for example, set up the
LIB to include the library path, INCLUDE to include the headers path,
and PATH to include the dll bin path of all four SDK's, and set the
DBD_LIST environment variable to inform the build which client driver
SDKs are installed correctly, e.g.;</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
set DBD_LIST=sqlite3 pgsql oracle mysql
</code></p></div>
<p>Similarly, the dbm support can be extended with DBM_LIST to
configuring LIB, INCLUDE and PATH first to ensure the client library
libs and headers are available.</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
set DBM_LIST=db gdbm
</code></p></div>
<div class="note">Depending on the choice of database distributions, it may be
within the directories srclib\apr-util\dbd or ...\dbm.</div>
<p>See the README-win32.txt file for more hints on obtaining the
various database driver SDKs.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="unixsrcbuild" id="unixsrcbuild">Building from Unix sources</a></h2>
<p>The policy of the HTTPd Server project is to only release Unix sources.
Windows source packages made available for download have been supplied by
volunteers and may not be available for every release. You can still build
the server on Windows from the Unix source tarball with just a few additional
steps.</p>
<ol>
<li>Download and unpack the Unix source tarball for the latest version.</li>
<li>Download and unpack the Unix source tarball for latest version of
APR-Iconv, place this source in the httpd-2.x.x\srclib\apr-iconv</li>
<li>Run the line endings conversion utility at the prompt;</li>
</ol>
<div class="example"><p><code>
perl srclib\apr\build\lineends.pl
</code></p></div>
<p>You can now build the server with the Visual Studio development
environment using the IDE. Command-Line builds of the server are not
possible from Unix sources unless you export .mak files as explained
below.
</p>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="commandbuild" id="commandbuild">Command-Line Build</a></h2>
To compile Apache on Windows, simply use one of the following commands
to build the <code>release</code> or <code>debug</code> flavor:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
nmake /f Makefile.win _apached
</code></p></div>
<p>Either command will compile Apache. The latter will disable
optimization of the resulting files, making it easier to single
step the code to find bugs and track down problems.</p>
<p>You can add your apr-util dbd and dbm provider choices with the
additional make (environment) variables DBD_LIST and DBM_LIST,
see the comments about [Optional] Database libraries, above.
Review the initial comments in Makefile.win for additional options
that can be provided when invoking the build.</p>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="workspacebuild" id="workspacebuild">Developer Studio Workspace IDE Build</a></h2>
<p>Apache can also be compiled using VC++'s Visual Studio
development environment. To simplify this process, a
This workspace exposes the entire list of working <code>.dsp</code>
projects that are required for the complete Apache binary release.
It includes dependencies between the projects to assure that they
are built in the appropriate order.</p>
<code>InstallBin</code> (<code>Release</code> or <code>Debug</code> build,
as desired) as the Active Project. <code>InstallBin</code> causes all
move the compiled executables and dlls. You may personalize the
<code>INSTDIR=</code> choice by changing <code>InstallBin</code>'s Settings,
General tab, Build command line entry. <code>INSTDIR</code> defaults to the
<code>/Apache2</code> directory. If you only want a test compile (without
installing) you may build the <code>BuildBin</code> project instead.</p>
<p>The <code>.dsp</code> project files are distributed in Visual Studio 6.0
(98) format. Visual C++ 5.0 (97) will recognize them. Visual Studio
<code>.msproj</code> files. Be sure you reconvert the <code>.msproj</code>
file again if its source <code>.dsp</code> file changes! This is really
and reconvert.</p>
will mis-parse the /D flag for RC flags containing long quoted /D'efines
which contain spaces. The command:
<div class="example"><p><code>
perl srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -2005
</code></p></div>
will convert the /D flags for RC flags to use an alternate, parseable
syntax; unfortunately this syntax isn't supported by Visual Studio 97
or its exported .mak files. These /D flags are used to pass the long
description of the mod_apachemodule.so files to the shared .rc resource
version-identifier build.</div>
<p>Visual Studio 2002 (.NET) and later users should also use the Build
menu, Configuration Manager dialog to uncheck both the <code>Debug</code>
and <code>Release</code> Solution modules <code>abs</code>,
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code> components, as
well as every component starting with <code>apr_db*</code>. These modules
are built by invoking <code>nmake</code>, or the IDE directly with the
<code>BinBuild</code> target, which builds those modules conditionally
<code>zlib</code> exist, and based on the setting of <code>DBD_LIST</code>
and <code>DBM_LIST</code> environment variables.</p>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="exportingmakfiles" id="exportingmakfiles">Exporting command-line .mak files</a></h2>
<p>Exported <code>.mak</code> files pose a greater hassle, but they are
required for Visual C++ 5.0 users to build <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code>,
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code>. The .mak files also support a broader
range of C++ tool chain distributions, such as Visual Studio Express.</p>
<p>You must first build all projects in order to create all dynamic
auto-generated targets, so that dependencies can be parsed correctly.
Build the entire project from within the Visual Studio 6.0 (98) IDE,
using the <code>BuildAll</code> target, then use the Project Menu Export
for all makefiles (checking on "with dependencies".) Run the following
command to correct absolute paths into relative paths so they will build
anywhere:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
perl srclib\apr\build\fixwin32mak.pl
</code></p></div>
<p>You must type this command from the <em>top level</em>
directory of the httpd source tree. Every
<code>.mak</code> and <code>.dep</code> project file within
the current directory and below will be corrected, and the
timestamps adjusted to reflect the <code>.dsp</code>.</p>
<p>Always review the generated <code>.mak</code> and <code>.dep</code>
files for Platform SDK or other local, machine specific file paths.
The <code>DevStudio\Common\MSDev98\bin\</code> (VC6) directory contains
this file (including both forward and backslashed paths, such as both
newer dependencies. Including local-install paths in a distributed
<code>.mak</code> file will cause the build to fail completely.</p>
<p>If you contribute back a patch that revises project files, we
must commit project files in Visual Studio 6.0 format. Changes
should be simple, with minimal compilation and linkage flags that
can be recognized by all Visual Studio environments.</p>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="installation" id="installation">Installation</a></h2>
<p>Once Apache has been compiled, it needs to be installed in
its server root directory. The default is the
<code>\Apache2</code> directory, of the same drive.</p>
<p>To build and install all the files into the desired folder
<em>dir</em> automatically, use one of the following
<code>nmake</code> commands:</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
</code></p></div>
<p>The <em>dir</em> argument to <code>INSTDIR</code> provides
the installation directory; it can be omitted if Apache is
to be installed into <code>\Apache22</code> (of the current
drive).</p>
<div class="section">
<h2><a name="projectcomponents-warn" id="projectcomponents-warn">Warning about building Apache from the development tree</a></h2>
<div class="note">Note only the <code>.dsp</code> files are maintained between <code>release</code>
builds. The <code>.mak</code> files are NOT regenerated, due to the tremendous
waste of reviewer's time. Therefore, you cannot rely on the <code>NMAKE</code>
commands above to build revised <code>.dsp</code> project files unless you
then export all <code>.mak</code> files yourself from the project. This is
unnecessary if you build from within the Microsoft
Developer Studio environment.</div>
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