Building and Installing HHVM on Cygwin

Cygwin Build

Cygwin builds still use windows APIs. Only Windows 7 64bit and higher is supported. For now, HHVM must run inside the cygwin terminal.

First you need to install cygwin. You must install the 64 bit version

http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe

Do not deselect any default packages. In addition you will need to install

Binaries

• git
• cmake
• g++ (NOT the cygwin-32 version and NOT the mingw version)
• make
• cygserver (usually in a base install, but you need to run cygserver-config afterwards - this is necessary for sysv queue support)

For building deps

• wget (under web)
• patch
• automake-1.11 (the version is important)

Dependencies

• libboost-devel
• libiconv-devel
• libpcre-devel
• libevent-devel
• libcurl-devel
• libxml2-devel
• libxslt-devel
• libexpat-devel
• libmcrypt-devel
• libbz2-devel
• openldap-devel
• libreadline-devel
• libedit-devel
• libelf-devel
• libonig-devel
• libintl-devel
• libcrypt0devel
• libsqlite3-devel -> NOTE: do NOT install the 3.8.5 version, it's broken, install the latest 3.8.4 version available

Then accept any dependencies that come along for the ride

Next you'll need to build 4 libraries

1. glog
2. libdwarf
3. libmemcached
4. tbb (thread building blocks)

Each of these will need a patch applied. Two patches are from Yet Another Cygwin Ports, one is a one line fix, and one allows tbb to build and run on cygwin.