windows_build.md

Building libcouchbase on Windows

NOTE:: we are currently not supporting 32bit Windows installations

1. Install Python 2.7 x64
2. Install cmake
3. Install OpenSSL x64 Dev
4. Install git
5. git clone https://github.com/libuv/libuv.git
6. Add libuv, openssl, cmake and python to Path ENV VAR
7. Install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017
   • Windows 10 SDK
   • Visual C++ tools for cmake
   • C++/CLI support
8. Build libuv (or use gem install libuv to automate)
   • git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gyp build/gyp
   • vcbuild.bat vs2017 shared debug x64 -- libcouchbase looks for a debug build
   • vcbuild.bat vs2017 shared release x64
9. git clone https://github.com/couchbase/libcouchbase.git
   • mkdir lcb-build
   • cd lcb-build
   • cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" ..\libcouchbase (should include libuv + openssl)
   • cmake --build .

Seems to also support: https://github.com/google/snappy

• mkdir snappybuild && cd snappybuild && cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" ..\snappy
• I couldn't work out how to have libcouchbase include this in the build.

I also had to modify plugin-libuv.c before this would compile on Windows

• Installed the Visual Studio GUI using VS Installer
• #include "libcouchbase\plugins\io\bsdio-inl.c"
• The linker has some dependencies that need to be removed such as: OPTIMIZED.lib

A pre-compiled version of libcouchbase.dll is shipped with the GEM