Hi,
> Admittedly a lot of work, but probably not that difficult. > Definitely not difficult, and some code has already been updated. But still a lot of work. > > > Also, the use of dlopen and dlsym is a little bit more tricky, Celix > relies > > on "local" loading of the libraries. But APR doesn't support passing > these > > arguments.. This can easily be fixed by using a ifdef windows, ifdef > linux > > etc.. > > Did anyone raise such a feature request in the APR project, or am I now > proposing something impossible? After all, the Apache web server, one of > the biggest users of APR, runs on Windows as well. > There have been some discussions on this in the past, I would need to search for the threads. But I think one of the main reasons is that windows doesn't support passing any options at all. Not sure what the impact of this is on Celix.. > > Exactly, patches would be very helpful in this area. I also remember that > Microsoft offers support in porting Apache projects to Windows (or at least > they did) by offering licenses of their development tools. I'm not exactly > sure how to get them anymore, but as a mentor I can definitely ask around > if anyone is interested? > I do have the licenses, so testing/applying patches is no problem for me. The process was fairly simple, if needed I can lookup the mail thread describing it. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Alexander Broekhuis
