On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm trying to build apr on win32 from the command-line and I'm running > into some resistance. I'm using Visual Studio 12 on Windows 8.1. I have > installed the "Windows SDK" as well to try to help, but it doesn't seem > to have improved things. > > I'm following the instructions found here: > http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html > > I have downloaded the ZIP files for apr, apr-util, and apr-iconv and put > them into the requisite directories. > > I've run VS's VC\bin\vcvars32.bat to get the build tools in the path, > but I don't have a setenv.bat anywhere (suggested in the above > instructions). When I get to the step where I run "msdev" (which > basically /does the build/), I can't find the msdev program: > > C:\Users\Me\Desktop\apr-util>msdev aprutil.dsw /MAKE "apriconv - Win32 > Release" > 'msdev' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. > > I'm no win32 build expert, but I have quite a bit of experience building > on *NIX systems. Can anyone help me get things going on Windows? > > Thanks, > -chris > > The documented APR build system for Windows worked smoothly with a level of MS Visual Studio which is no longer available. Recently a cmake-based build was added; this is documented in README.cmake in the root of the APR source tree. That works with modern levels of Visual Studio (tested with at least 2008-2012). If you are accustomed to building the various pieces on Unix, you can use the cmake-based build in a roughly similar manner. But: The cmake build for APR-util doesn't support all features; there's no cmake build for APR-iconv yet, so you won't have the apr_xlate APIs (required by httpd's mod_charset_lite and perhaps some third-party code). In essence: * install cmake* * unpack apr 1.5.latest anywhere you want * open a Visual Studio command prompt and add the cmake bin directory to PATH * in empty directory: cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install /path/to/apr-1.5-source and similar for apr-util *What version? This build is untested with cmake 3 AFAIK. Also, some accommodation is needed in the APR-Util build for the most recent cmake 2.x release. See https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56616 for a workaround. If you have issues with the cmake-based build, I'm motivated to help. I expect that this will be the basis of the Windows build for the long term. Unfortunately, at present it does not support some features that I and some others didn't need for our httpd builds. -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/ http://edjective.org/
