Welcome to the Native Windows Port of the OpenACS system!

Contents

This is Version 5.16.0 (4th of September 2023) of Windows-OpenACS port and it consists of:

• naviserver-5.0.0 – including
  • nsdbpg 2.8
  • nsoracle 2.9
  • nsssl 2.3
• tcl-8.6.13
• tk-8.6.13
• tDOM-0.9.1
• xotcl-2.3.0 (nsf 2.3.0)
• libthread-2.8.8
• tcllib-1.20
• zlib-1.3
• postgresql-16.4
• openssl-3.1.3
• OpenACS 5.10.1
• External binaries:
  a. Strawberry Perl 5.32.1.1 including MinGW 64 binaries (http://strawberryperl.com/)
  b. Curl 7.47.0 (http://curl.haxx.se/)
  c. brotli v1.0.7 (https://github.com/google/brotli)

Generation

This port has been generated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Professional Edition.

Compatible Windows Versions

This port works on the following systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 ; it runs only on Windows 64 bit.

How to get it

Windows-OpenACS can be downloaded here.

Installation Preconditions

This installer runs properly if the following conditions are met:

• The target platform is a Windows 64 bit machine
• PostgreSQL is not installed on the target machine
• The installation directory must be ‘C:\naviserver’
• Disk ‘C:’ on the target machine has at least 10 GB of free space available.

After Installation

The installation creates the following automatic services:

• PostgreSQL164 – PostgreSQL Service
• NaviServer-openacs – OpenACS Service

Windows-OpenACS will be available at: http://localhost:8000/

This is the admin account:
user=address@email.com
password=password

Compilation Instructions

Building and compilation instructions are available here.