Building Tor on Windows

What you will need:

• Tor source
• Libevent source
• Zlib source
• OpenSSL binaries
• Visual Studio 6.0 or higher, or the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, or the Windows Platform SDK (or some other package that includes cl.exe, link.exe, and nmake.exe)
• MAKEFILE for NMake

2. Extract the Libevent source. (Example: C:\Libevent)

3. Extract the Tor source. (Example: C:\tor-0.1.1.1-alpha)

4. Extract the ZLib source to the \contrib directory under wherever you extracted your Tor source. (Example: C:\tor-0.1.1.1-alpha\contrib\zlib)

5. Put the Makefile wherever you extracted your Tor source (Example: C:\tor-0.1.1.1-alpha)

6. Edit the Makefile to point to the appropriate OpenSSL and Libevent directories. The two lines you need to edit have been marked with "#### EDIT ME ####"

7. Open a command prompt and CD to wherever you extracted Tor. (Example: cd \tor-0.1.1.1-alpha)

8. Type "nmake" and hit Enter.

9. The compiled tor.exe and tor_resolve.exe will be placed in the current directory. (Example: C:\tor-0.1.1.1-alpha)

Send problems or suggestions to Matt Edman
Updated: 7/9/2005