Re: Can't build Apache::Dispatch on Windows / Perl 5.8.0

[Steve Hay]

Randy Kobes wrote:

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Geoffrey Young wrote:

 

The problem you described before with the missing symbols
can be resolved by linking against the mod_perl.lib built
when you build mod_perl.so. This can be done by adding in
a LIBS attribute to WriteMakefile() in Makefile.PL with a
value of ' -L/Path/to/mod_perl_lib -lmod_perl'.
     

ah, right.  thanks randy.

examples of this can be found in Apache::WinBitHack, for
example, the format of which should probably go in
Apache::Dispatch (as well as just about all Apache::
modules to make sure they are Win32 compliant :)
   

Here's a patch against the Apache-Dispatch Makefile.PL to
allow it to build on Win32
Your patch does the trick for me, except that I had to rebuild mod_perl too.

The problem is that my installed mod_perl setup (Apache in C:\apache, 
Perl in C:\perl5) didn't contain the mod_perl.lib required.  The 
MODPERL_LIB entry in Apache::MyConfig said 
C:/Temp/mod_perl-1.28/src/modules/win32/Release, which is, of course, 
where it was when I was building mod_perl.

I believe that mod_perl 2 now installs the mod_perl.lib somewhere to 
solve that kind of problem.  Is there an option in the mod_perl 1 build 
process to thave that library installed, or could that be added to the 
next release?

Anyway, Apache::Dispatch is now up and running for me.  Thanks, Randy!

- Steve