Compiling Lighty on win32¶

cygwin¶

lighttpd is maintained as a set of packages available from cygwin setup.exe and supports nearly all the same features of lighttpd available on unix-like systems.

native _WIN32¶

lighttpd development prototype for _WIN32 may be built using (cygwin or msys) mingw or using MS Visual Studio.
https://github.com/gstrauss/lighttpd1.4/tree/win32-exp
This is a prototype and you are strongly advised against using _WIN32 lighttpd in production.

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native win32 (ancient documentation)¶

(WARNING: out-dated documentation)

Starting with lighty 1.4.11-svn the source compiles on windows. Not all parts are ported, but it works in general.

Requirements¶

• Visual C++ (e.g. Visual C++ Toolkit or Visual C++ 2005 Express)
• the win32-SDK from the Platform SDK (tip: you don't need the full package)
• SCons (scons 0.96.91 or higher) which requires Python

SCons needs a configfile in the same folder as the SConstruct file.

My config.py file looks like this:

prefix='c:/lighttpd-scons/'
VC_TOOLKIT_HOME='c:/Programme/Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003/'
PSDK_HOME='c:/Programme/Microsoft Platform SDK/'
# with_mysql='/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config'
with_pcre='no'
with_openssl='no'
with_gzip='no'
with_bzip2='no'
with_memcached='no'
with_sqlite3='no'
with_xml='no'
# default 'no'
build_static='yes'
# default 'no'
build_fullstatic='no'
# default 'yes'
build_dynamic='no'

All the with_* options have to 'no' for now, build_static is the only way that works and VC_TOOLKIT_HOME and PSDK_HOME have to be set to the locations of the Visual C++ Toolkit and the Platform SDK.

$ scons 

will build the lighty (lighttpd-semi-static.exe) in the 'build' directory.

Problems¶

With a get of /trunk/ as of 11/28/2006, and using VS2005, I get:

scons: *** An executable should have exactly one target with the suffix: .exe

Deleting that section out of the SConscript (it seems to be for building test apps?) gets me a bit farther until:

src\server.c(3) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/time.h': No such file or directory

Anyone have any suggestions?

As with r1504 /trunk/ it seems that Win32 build is broken:

sys/time.h only exists in POSIX environment, possibly should be using sys/utime.h under Win32.

Local implementation of getopt.h is missing.