>Number: 2153
>Category: os-windows
>Synopsis: Apache installation could be simplified by rolling ApacheCore
>into Apache.exe
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 28 16:40:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3b6
>Environment:
Windows NT 4.0 SP 3
Visual C++ 5.0
>Description:
This is a suggestion for simplifying the configuration of the Apache web server
for Windows NT/95.
The Beta versions of Apache have been distributed with a stub mainline
executable and a large DLL (ApacheCore.dll) which contains the actual Apache
implementation code. Presumably, this was done so that the Apache modules could
call into the Apache implementation code. However, it's a little known fact
that dynamically loaded modules can call an executable just like they can call
another DLL, if that executable is the program that loaded them.
I would therefore like to suggest that you get rid of ApacheCore.dll and move
the code into Apache.exe, similar to how the configuration is on other systems.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Rather than send diff's of makefiles and workspaces, I'm just going to describe
the steps to make the modification. This also makes a master workspace which
controls building of the entire project. You may already have such a thing; if
you don't, it's definitely worth building one.
- Create (or load, if you already have it) a workspace to go with Apache.dsp .
- "Insert" the ApacheCore.dsp project into this workspace (menu item
Project/Insert Project into Workspace).
- Move the contents of the "Source" and "Header" folders from ApacheCore to
"Apache". Move the "Generated Files" folter to "Apache" as well. Drop
ApacheCore.def however; all exports are handled directly in the source code.
- Remove main_win32.c from this workspace; it won't be needed.
- Remove the WIN32 code surrounding the definition of main (or REALMAIN) in
http_main.c
- "Insert" the ap.dsp, ApacheOS.dsp, regex.dsp gen_test_char.dsp and
gen_uri_delims.dsp projects into this workspace. Make Apache depend on all of
them (from Project/Dependencies).
- Modify the Apache project's C++ settings to correspond to those of ApacheCore
. I think the only setting is to set Preprocessor/Include path to ".\include" .
- Modify the Apache project's Link settings to agree with ApacheCore. I think
the only setting change is to add wsock32.lib to the library list.
- Set Apache as the Active project.
Now, you should be set up to build the Apache project.
Having build an integrated workspace, you can use the resulting makefile to
build Apache; it's no longer necessary to maintain makefile.nt. This command
will build the Apache executable from scratch. Other projects can be added
to build all modules, for example, or the entire distribution.
nmake -f Apache.mak CFG="Apache - Win32 Release"
All we have done at this point is to break the external module DLLs. To fix
them up again, go into each one and change "..\..\CoreX\ApacheCore.lib" to
"..\..\ApacheX\Apache.lib" . In the workspace, you should also make Apache a
dependency of each module. I suggest that you add all of these module projects
into the Apache workspace as well; this makes it easy to select one, several or
all of them to build.
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