I want to build nginx for Windows with a WebDAV module, so I followed the documentation on Building nginx on the Win32 platform with Visual C.
Environment
Step
Run the script below using MSYS2:
cd /d/source/nginx
hg clone http://hg.nginx.org/nginx
tar -xzf ../pcre-8.45.tar.gz
tar -xzf ../zlib-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar -xzf ../openssl-1.1.1q.tar.gz
git clone https://github.com/arut/nginx-dav-ext-module.git ../nginx-dav-ext-module
auto/configure --with-cc=cl --builddir=objs \
--with-debug --prefix= --conf-path=conf/nginx.conf \
--pid-path=logs/nginx.pid --http-log-path=logs/access.log \
--error-log-path=logs/error.log --sbin-path=nginx.exe \
--http-client-body-temp-path=temp/client_body_temp \
--http-proxy-temp-path=temp/proxy_temp \
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=temp/fastcgi_temp \
--http-scgi-temp-path=temp/scgi_temp \
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=temp/uwsgi_temp \
--with-cc-opt=-DFD_SETSIZE=1024 \
--with-pcre=../pcre-8.45 \
--with-zlib=../zlib-1.2.12 \
--with-select_module \
--with-http_v2_module \
--with-http_realip_module \
--with-http_addition_module \
--with-http_sub_module \
--with-http_dav_module \
--with-http_stub_status_module \
--with-http_flv_module \
--with-http_mp4_module \
--with-http_gunzip_module \
--with-http_gzip_static_module \
--with-http_auth_request_module \
--with-http_random_index_module \
--with-http_secure_link_module \
--with-http_slice_module \
--with-mail \
--with-stream \
--with-openssl=../openssl-1.1.1q \
--with-openssl-opt=no-asm \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--with-mail_ssl_module \
--with-stream_ssl_module \
--add-module=../nginx-dav-ext-module
But an error occurred：
checking for libxslt ... not found
checking for libxslt in /usr/local/ ... not found
checking for libxslt in /usr/pkg/ ... not found
checking for libxslt in /opt/local/ ... not found
I tried install libxslt using pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libxslt, but without any luck.
How to solve this problem?
The funny thing, I tried to do almost the same not less than a day ago. My conditions were somewhat different, I was (re)building an OpenResty bundle due to the need of the ngx_http_xslt_module. I also used msys2-x86_64-20220603, however my build toolchain was MinGW GCC 12.1.0 / MSYS2 make / etc. I basically faced the same problem, and solved it the following way.
libxml2 and libxslt libraries from MinGW:$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libxslt
auto/lib/libxslt/conf file, where rules to find libxml2/libxslt libraries header files and linkable objects are defined. Here is my patch to this file:--- conf
+++ conf
@@ -73,6 +73,23 @@
fi
+if [ $ngx_found = no ]; then
+
+ # MinGW64
+
+ ngx_feature="libxslt in /mingw64/"
+ ngx_feature_path="/mingw64/include/libxml2 /mingw64/include"
+
+ if [ $NGX_RPATH = YES ]; then
+ ngx_feature_libs="-R/mingw64/lib -L/mingw64/lib -lxml2 -lxslt"
+ else
+ ngx_feature_libs="-L/mingw64/lib -lxml2 -lxslt"
+ fi
+
+ . auto/feature
+fi
+
+
if [ $ngx_found = yes ]; then
CORE_INCS="$CORE_INCS $ngx_feature_path"
@@ -156,6 +173,23 @@
fi
+if [ $ngx_found = no ]; then
+
+ # MinGW64
+
+ ngx_feature="libexslt in /mingw64/"
+ ngx_feature_path="/mingw64/include/libxml2 /mingw64/include"
+
+ if [ $NGX_RPATH = YES ]; then
+ ngx_feature_libs="-R/mingw64/lib -L/mingw64/lib -lexslt"
+ else
+ ngx_feature_libs="-L/mingw64/lib -lexslt"
+ fi
+
+ . auto/feature
+fi
+
+
if [ $ngx_found = yes ]; then
if [ $USE_LIBXSLT = YES ]; then
CORE_LIBS="$CORE_LIBS -lexslt"
C:\MSYS64\mingw64\bin folder should be placed among the nginx.exe binary: libxslt-1.dll, libexslt-0.dll, libxml2-2.dll, libiconv-2.dll, liblzma-5.dll, zlib1.dll (last three are libxml2-2.dll dependencies).