[asterisk-users] Windows Asterisk Help

[A J Stiles]

On Wednesday 29 Jul 2015, Murthy Gandikota wrote:
> Hi All,As
> Downloaded latest version of Asterisk from www.asteriskwin32.com and
> installed on Windows 7.

Why?

Trying to get Asterisk to run on Windows is like trying to teach a gerbil to 
bark.  It's an extraordinary effort, and the result is unlikely to do anything 
other than disappoint.


* Asterisk was designed from the outset to run on Unix-like systems, and has 
certain design decisions baked into it that preclude it from building on 
legacy systems such as Windows without serious modifications.  Any version of 
Asterisk that has been persuaded to run on Windows will be behind the curve, 
and missing the latest and greatest features.

* Asterisk, even on its native Linux platform where all the bits work 
properly, is harder to use than Linux.  The supposed "advantage" of not 
needing to learn to use Linux is negated by the steeper learning curve of 
Asterisk.

* Asterisk doesn't make too many demands of hardware, except for preferring to 
have its hardware all to itself.  You can try it out on a scrap PC  (available 
free almost anywhere)  at first and then, if you like it, install it on a 
dedicated machine.  If you don't need dedicated PCI / PCI express hardware, 
then you can even run Asterisk on something like a Raspberry Pi.


If you want to run Asterisk, then you might as well bite the bullet and run it 
on Linux.   Also, forget about pre-compiled packages, just build it from 
Source Code.


-- 
AJS

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