On May 4, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Luis Lavena wrote:

> 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, I'm adding this write-up to the 0mq FAQ. Thanks for the write-up!

cr