On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Michael Lackhoff <mich...@lackhoff.de> wrote: > Hello, > > if possible I try to develop on Windows, then deploy on Linux or Solaris > for production. This worked very well in the past with a self compiled > environment (VC6). But as some components are rather old by now I would > like to recompile with recent versions of apache, perl, mod_perl, > openssl and some DBI-drivers but I had some problems with apache 2.2.11. > I have VC6 with SP5 installed, plus the 2003 Platform SDK update from > Microsoft. Perl 5.10.0 and openssl 0.9.8k compile just fine but when it > comes to Apache 2.2.11 or 2.2.10 I get lots of errors in the APR part of > the build. 2.2.9 seems to be the last version that builds o.k. > > My question is twofold: First, any ideas what might be going wrong? As > there are some (VC6?) compiled versions around, this should be possible. > Or, as second choice, what would be a good working combination of > precompiled versions? In the past I had tried XAMPP but had some > problems with DBI and openssl when adding modules that didn't come with > XAMPP. These problems were gone when I compiled everything myself and I > don't want them to come back. As I understand it (I am no C programmer) > it is important for some parts of the chain to be built with the same > compiler/same settings and as it seems impossible to get everything I > need from a single (binary-)source I keep trying to compile it myself.
You're right that problems can arise when using components that were compiled with different versions of VC++. There is a Win32 binary version of Apache/2.2.11 available from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi, which should be compatible with ActivePerl. If you're having problems compiling the Apache server, the mailing lists for either httpd (http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html) or apr (http://apr.apache.org/mailing-lists.html) would be a good place to report problems. -- best regards, Randy
