William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
carlo.bramix wrote:
I believe that APR was never supported very well on mingw+msys. At least, it
was not in the last two years since I'm using it.
Nope; we periodically apply a group of patches, but none of the core
committers actually ran either cygwin or msys/mingw
In 2006 both Justin and I had it running. Others might of too. I had
this delusion that we could run apr on mingw, and then in theory httpd
too, but I gave up after too much windows pain.
But hopefully (evidently, you have not checked APR carefully enough!) a full
mingw+msys port already exists in bugzilla:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46175
Yup - my own preference would be strong support for msys/mingw because
applying a portability layer (apr) on top of a portability layer (cygwin)
is a sort of silly exercise ;-)
I agree, and the interesting bit is that 95% of that patch is to
autoconf, making it auto-detect stuff better, the portability is already
there in the C code.
-Paul
