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-# Using rabbitmq-c on Windows
-
-==================
-# This document is out of date
-
-To build rabbitmq-c on Win32 look at the "Building and Installing with CMake" section of README.md
-==================
-
-There are three approaches to building rabbitmq-c under Windows:
-
-- THE PREFERRED METHOD:
- Build using CMake, which will cover building with MSVC or MinGW
- See the README file for details on how to build with cmake.
-
-- Build using the MinGW/MSYS (MinGW/MSYS is a port of the GNU
- toolchain and utilities to Windows, including the gcc compiler).
- The results of building in this way are native Windows DLLs and
- EXEs, and can be used without having MinGW installed. The drawback
- to this approach is that you cannot safely call the resulting
- librabbitmq DLL from code compiled with Microsoft's C compiler. The
- advantage is that the whole of rabbitmq-c can be built under
- Windows, including the tools.
-
-- Build using Microsoft's C compiler. You will still need to install
- MinGW/MSYS in order to run the rabbitmq-c build scripts, but
- Microsoft's compiler is used to compile the code. The resulting
- librabbitmq DLL can be used from code compiled with Microsoft's C
- compiler (i.e. code developed in Visual Studio). The downside to
- this approach is that the rabbitmq-c tools cannot be built, due to
- dependencies on other libraries.
-
-
-## Common steps
-
-With either of the approaches, the initial steps are the same: You
-should download and install MinGW/MSYS and Python.
-
-Installing installing the relevant parts of MinGW/MSYS can be fairly
-time consuming - there are dozens of files to be downloaded and
-unpacked. To make it easier, we provide a bash script that automates
-this process, in `rabbitmq-c/etc/install-mingw.sh`. You can run this
-script under cygwin or Linux (obviously if you use Linux you'll need
-to transfer the resulting files over to the Windows machine).
-
-Note that some MinGW packages are .tar.lzma files, so it requires a
-system with the xz compression utility and a tar that supports the -J
-option. Recent cygwin and Linux distros should be fine here.
-
-Run the install-mingw.sh script specifying the destination directory,
-e.g.
-
- $ etc/install-mingw.sh mingw
-
-This will download all the required MinGW/MSYS packages, and unpack
-them into the `mingw` directory.
-
-The other prerequisite for the rabbitmq-c build is Python. The
-Windows installer from python.org for the latest 2.x version of Python
-will do fine.
-
-You will also need to copy the source code for rabbitmq-c and
-rabbitmq-codegen somewhere under your `mingw` directory.
-
-Then to start the MSYS bash shell, open a `cmd` window, and ensure
-that both the MinGW bin directory and the python install directory are
-in the path, e.g.
-
- C:\>set PATH=%PATH%;C:\mingw\bin;C:\Python27
-
-Then start bash, and run the following mount command (substituting the
-Windows path of your MinGW install if it isn't `C:\mingw`):
-
- C:\>bash
- bash-3.1$ mount 'C:\mingw' /mingw
-
-Finally, go to wherever you copied the rabbitmq-c source.
-
- bash-3.1$ cd /rabbitmq-c
-
-
-## Building rabbitmq-c with Microsoft's C compiler
-
-The Microsoft C/C++ compiler is part of MS Visual Studio, including
-the gratis Visual Studio Express. Visual Studio 2005 and higher are
-known to work.
-
-Start by following the steps in the previous section. The GNU build
-tools have limited support for Microsoft toolchain, but the
-install-mingw.sh script will install versions of the packages that are
-known to be suitable. In particular, only libtool version 2.2.7a is
-known to work; later versions have been reported to introduce
-problems.
-
-Once you are at the bash prompt, build rabbitmq-c by running the
-script in `rabbitmq-c/etc/build-ms.sh`:
-
- bash-3.1$ etc/build-ms.sh
-
-You should end up with a directory `build` containing the librabbitmq
-DLL, the corresponding .lib file, and header files. These are
-sufficient to create applications using librabbitmq within Visual
-Studio.
-
-build-ms.sh produces 32-bit binaries by default. If you have an
-appropriate version of Visual Studio (e.g. VS2010), you can build
-64-bit binaries with:
-
- bash-3.1$ etc/build-ms.sh --enable-64-bit
-
-
-## Building rabbitmq-c with gcc
-
-There is no script to build rabbitmq-c with gcc, but it is as
-documented in the README file:
-
- bash-3.1$ autoreconf -i && ./configure && make
-
-You can run the resulting tool EXEs without needing the rest of MinGW. To do
-this, copy the following files into a single directory:
-
-- rabbitmq-c/tools/.libs/*.exe
-
-- rabbitmq-c/librabbitmq/.libs/librabbitmq-0.dll
-
-- /bin/libpopt-0.dll
-
-- /bin/libiconv-2.dll
-
-- /bin/libintl-8.dll
-
-