... and still hanging. Rather than ApacheLounge and some others needing to patch each time, did we conclude that we should wire in the applink.c stub into Apache.exe as shipped by httpd project?
(I've never mixed binaries of different MSVC environments, so myself, I don't care, but it seems to raise issues for a subset of the community.) On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 7:05 PM William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > So we kind of left this hanging... > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:35 PM Gregg Smith <g...@gknw.net> wrote: > >> On 6/15/2016 9:20 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: >> > In building httpd.exe, some users don't build and install openssl. It >> isn't >> > going >> > to be possible to simply #include<openssl/applink.c> without some >> > conditional >> > test. OpenSSL itself is partly the culprit, for not having an >> > APPLINK_REQUIRED >> > style macro conditional. But we can work around this in the cmake tests. >> > >> >> This is why the patch creator put this inside a HAVE_OPENSSL block so >> ab.exe did not get this added. abs (at least on the dsp et. al.) is not >> built unless there is OpenSSL present. >> >> > I'll look at making this a standard bit of the httpd 2.4 build. We can >> > likely >> > add a user-toggled flag to the os/win32/os.h? >> >> Seems to me this is not needed . >> > > So, is the win32 community in favor of using HAVE_OPENSSL to include > applink.c in the scope of main.c (as revised in the current ab.c sources, > to avoid this on libressl?) > > There is a presumption that the crt used by libhttpd the same as libapr, > but I think this is a reasonable connection. > > The entire logic to main.c should be as simple as... > > #if defined(HAVE_OPENSSL) && defined(_MSC_VER) && > !defined(LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER) > /* The following logic ensures we correctly glue FILE* within one CRT used > * by the OpenSSL library build to another CRT used by the ab.exe build. > * This became especially problematic with Visual Studio 2015. > */ > #include <openssl/applink.c> > #endif > > By inserting the structure in httpd.exe, that structure can be found by > the openssl library, which is not true of including this in a loadable > library such as libhttpd.dll or libaprutil-1.dll. >
