I've been working at getting the APR::* modules decoupled from mod_perl.so on Win32, and have run into a couple of things that I'm not sure about ...
- one is how to automatically generate the .def file (and also the .exp file on AIX) for the APR module (which contains the symbols needed by APR::*). I've tried to get build/source_scan.pl working to generate the function tables, but there's issues on Win32 that seem involved to solve (I'm also having problems on my linux system with this, where it chokes when encountering some apreq stuff). As a temporary thing, would it be acceptable to manually create something like xs/tables/current/APR/FunctionTable.pm and populate it with the needed functions, and generate the def/exp file from that? It would mean manually maintaining this file until the necessary changes are implemented to automatically generate it, which isn't an ideal situation, but perhaps that's OK for the time being?
I think it makes a perfect sense to have APR/FunctionTable.pm, all we need to do is to change the source scan to send /*apr_/ functions to APR/FunctionTable.pm and probably the same for ConstantsTable.pm and StructureTable.pm, and adjust the rest of the code to use these new tables.
- the other thing I think is a Win32 specific problem. When linking, for example, APR::Table against APR.lib to resolve the symbols formerly in mod_perl.so, I get an error about not finding APR.dll. This can be fixed by adding the directory APR.dll lives in to the PATH, but that's ugly, and hard to make portable. What I was hoping is that if, for example, APR::Table loaded APR, this issue would be resolved. However, a simple use APR (); within APR::Table doesn't do the trick. But I'm probably misunderstanding what it means to load things in this context - is it just putting in this 'use APR' in the .pm file? Or is there more to it?
Yes, yes, it makes a perfect sense. All that needs to be done is to change the autogenerator of WrapXS/APR/*/*.pm files to automatically include 'use APR ()'; Though it probably will require some sort of code split for the APR case, I haven't look at the code.
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