On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Can someone write up the steps needed to get 0mq working on windows?
>

Steps are easy:

1) You need RubyInstaller and it's DevKit, instructions for that are
in RubyInstaller website:

http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads

2) Start a command prompt and invoke devkitvars.bat found inside the
folder you installed DevKit, this will give you access to MinGW tools.

3) Download 0mq source somewhere and extract (eg C:\src\zeromq)

4) compile it using the following commands:

C:\> cd C:\src\zeromq
C:\> sh configure --prefix=C:/zeromq
C:\> make
C:\> make install

Note the use of forwardslash in the second command. The above commands
will take a long time to complete, but once its done, you will find
inside C:\zeromq folder the binaries (bin, lib, include).

5) Copy the result binaries

Now you can copy the DLL from inside bin into a directory in your PATH
and use it.

6) Don't forget the additional dependencies

Don't forge to copy libstdc++-6.dll and libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll from
DevKit MinGW into the same folder you copied  libzmq.dll.

To know where these DLLs are, you can use where, eg:

C:\> where libstdc++-6.dll
C:\Users\Luis\Tools\DevKit\4.5.1\mingw\bin\libstdc++-6.dll

-- 
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
-
Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry