Problem compiling mod_perl 1.27 on Windows

[Steve Hay]

Hi,

I'm having trouble compiling mod_perl 1.27 (with Apache 1.3.27 / Perl 5.8.0) on Windows (XP SP1 with MS VC++ 6.0 SP5).

It builds fine with Perl 5.8.0 standard sources, but I'm just trying to upgrade my Perl to the slightly patched sources that ActivePerl Build 804 uses. I've built Perl from these new sources with the same build options that I used before for the standard source build (no threading, and Perl's malloc). (The output of "Perl -V" is at the bottom of this mail.)

I run the following commands to build mod_perl:

perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=C:/apache INSTALL_DLL=C:/apache/modules EAPI
nmake

The first command runs fine, but the second has the following error:

Apache.xs(1963) : error C2115: '=' : incompatible types

The line referred to by this error is:

statcache = r->finfo;

I've no idea why this should be causing a problem with the new Perl. If I switch the Perl that I'm building against back to the standard 5.8.0 (by simply re-naming directories) and then re-run the "nmake" command above then mod_perl compiles and links with no errors.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

- Steve

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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-perlio
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
optimize='-MD -DNDEBUG -O1',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release -libpath:"C:\perl5\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
libpth=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\VC98\lib C:\openssl\lib
libs=libeay32.lib oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
perllibs=libeay32.lib oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
gnulibc_version='undef'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release -libpath:"C:\perl5\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at Dec 13 2002 08:42:43
@INC:
C:/perl5/lib
C:/perl5/site/lib
.