How to build subversion on Windows

Before you start

• Download required files from here.
• Create 'prj' folder for workplace and place files as below

prj (Created folder)

- svn (Subversion)

- zlib

- apr

- apr-util

- xml (apr-util has this folder)

- expat

- sqlite

- serf (Created folder)

- openssl

- serf

- scons

- nasm

- svn-win32-libintl

- gettext

• All target Platform is set to Win32.
• This post supplements INSTALL document from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/INSTALL
  
  

1. zlib

• Open Visual Studio Solution file 'zlib/contrib/vstudio/vc14/zlibvc.sln'.
• On the toolbar, choose ReleaseWithoutAsm from the Solution Configurations list box.
  (Asm version does not work correctly.)
• Select zlibstat project and open project properties (Below is needed to work with subversion.)
• C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions : Remove ZLIB_WINAPI;
• C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library : Set to Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)
• Build zlibstat project. This will create 'zlibstat.lib'
• Move 'zlibstat.lib' from 'zlib/contrib/vstudio/vc14/x86/ZlibStatReleaseWithoutAsm' to 'zlib/' for later use.
  
  

2. expat

• Extract 'expat' folder in source to 'apr-util/xml/expat/'
• Open 'apr-util/xml/expat/expat.sln'.
• On the toolbar, choose Release from the Solution Configurations list box.
• Select expat project and open project properties
• General -> Windows SDK Version : Set to <inherit from parent or project defaults> or Installed SDK version
• C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library : Set to Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)
• Linker -> General -> Output File : Set to .\LibR\libexpat.dll
• Linker -> Advanced -> Import Library : Set to .\LibR\libexpat.lib
• Build expat project. This will create 'libexpat.dll' and libexpat.lib'

3. apr, apr-util, apr-iconv

• Open 'apr-util/aprutil.dsw'.
• On the toolbar, choose Release from the Solution Configurations list box.
• View -> Other Windows -> Property Manager
• Right click libaprutil -> Add New Project Property Sheet... -> Add
• Expand 'libaprutil' tree view -> Release | Win32 -> PropertySheet
• User Macros -> Add Macro
• Name : XML_PARSER
• Value : .\xml\expat\lib\LibR\libexpat
• Build libapr and libaprutil project

4. openssl

• Open 'Developer command prompt for vs2017'.
• Go to 'prj/serf/openssl' (In my case, Z:\prj\serf\openssl)
  
  cd prj\serf\openssl
• Add nasm folder to path
  
  PATH=%PATH%;Z:\prj\serf\nasm

• Modify 'openssl/Configurations/10-main.conf'
  

  (Line 1299) "/MT /Zl"
           =>  "/MD /Zl"
  
  (Line 1312) "/MT"
           =>  "/MD"

• Configure
  

  perl Configure zlib --with-zlib-include=../../zlib --with-zlib-lib=../../zlib/zlibstat.lib no-shared enable-capieng VC-WIN32
• Build
  
  nmake

• Move 'libcrypto.lib', 'libssl.lib' from 'serf/openssl' to 'serf/openssl/lib/' for later use.

4. serf

• Open 'Developer command prompt for vs2017'.
• Go to 'prj/serf/serf' (In my case, Z:\prj\serf\serf)
  
  cd prj\serf\serf

• Modify 'serf/SConstruct'
  

  (Line 143) allowed_values=('14.0', '12.0',
           => allowed_values=('14.1', '14.0', '12.0',
  
  (Line 329) 'zlib.lib'
           => 'zlibstat.lib'
  
  (Line 338) ['libeay32.lib', 'ssleay32.lib']
           => ['libcrypto.lib', 'libssl.lib']
  
  (Line 346) '$OPENSSL/inc32'
           => '$OPENSSL/include'
  
  (Line 347) '$OPENSSL/out32dll'
           => '$OPENSSL/lib'

• Configure & Build
  

  ..\scons\scons.py APR=../../apr APU=../../apr-util OPENSSL=../openssl/ ZLIB=../../zlib LINKFLAGS=/SAFESEH MSVC_VERSION=14.1

5. Subversion

• Open 'Developer command prompt for vs2017'.
• Go to 'prj/svn' (In my case, Z:\prj\svn)
  
  cd prj\svn
• Add gettext folder to path
  
  PATH=%PATH%;Z:\prj\gettext\bin

• Modify 'svn/build.cfg'. Add following line in [libsvn_ra_serf] section
  

  msvc-libs = Crypt32.lib

• Modify 'svn-win32-libintl/inc/libintl.h'. Add following line at the top of the file
  

  #define LIBINTL_VERSION 0x00000e01
• Copy 'prj/svn-win32-libintl/' to 'prj/svn/build/win32' (Subversion's build script cannot find this library correctly)
• Configure
  
  gen-make.py --vsnet-version=2017 --with-apr=..\apr --with-apr-util=..\apr-util --with-apr-iconv=..\apr-iconv --with-zlib=..\zlib --with-sql=..\sqlite --with-libintl=..\svn-win32-libintl --with-serf=../serf/serf --with-openssl=../serf/openssl --with-static-openssl

• Build
  

  msbuild subversion_vcnet.sln /t:__MORE__ /p:Configuration=Release