Randy Kobes wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Steve Hay wrote: >> That went off without a hitch, but when I come to run "nmake test" I >> find that the server doesn't start up. It loads perl58.dll OK, but >> won't load mod_perl.so. > [ ... ] > > I don't have VC 8 yet, but I'm wondering if, at least, > part of the problem is that mod_perl doesn't handle > manifest files in any Makefile. The recent version > of the Win32 apxs you're using does recognize them; > that involved the addition of something like > > if exist $(TargetPath).manifest mt.exe -manifest > $(TargetPath).manifest -outputresource:$(TargetPath);2 > > to the Makefile; perhaps we need something like this > in mp2?
I don't think anything special is required in mp2: the new apxs handles the httpd end of things (mod_perl.so), while the perl end of things (all the Apache2:: modules' DLLs etc) are taken care of by the changes to ExtUtils-MakeMaker that are among the VC8 changes in perl-current, specifically: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/29266 Are there any EXEs or DLLs built in mp2 that don't fall into either of these categories? > >> I then thought that I'd try building the latest 2.2.x snapshot >> instead (httpd_20070822041638.tar.gz), just in case I've missed some >> other relevant changes for building with VC8. [...] >> >> Sure enough, ap_requires() has been removed from server/core.c in the >> current httpd source. I tried mod_perl from svn, but that still calls >> ap_requires(). > > This is strange - the removal of ap_requires() from > server/core.c happened 19 months ago, so mp2 should > be aware of that. If I'm following things correctly > in the mp2 sources, though, it should be defined; > mp2\WrapXS\Apache2\Access\Access.xs defines > ap_requires() in terms of mpxs_ap_requires(), which > is defined in mp2\xs\Apache2\Access\Apache2__Access.h. > So it sounds like this is an internal mp2 problem; > could that also be related to manifest files? I hadn't noticed that ap_requires() disappeared so long ago. I just saw that it was not in server/core.c in the snapshot, but is in httpd-2.2.4's source, so I assumed it was a recent change. I'll have a harder squint at what's going on. I haven't tried building mp2 against the httpd snapshot using VC6 yet, so that's probably worth a try at least. I'll give that a go soon. Btw, there is a free version of VC8 (the "Express Edition") available for download from Microsoft's website if you want to give it a whirl yourself: you don't have to go spending lots of money! I have VC6 and VC8 both installed on my machine at the moment, and they co-exist quite happily. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
