On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Steve Hay wrote:
Steve Hay wrote:
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),
In theory that statement was correct, but in practice something seems to
be amiss (or else I'm doing it wrongly).
I said that my mod_perl.so has no unresolved dependencies, but I was
testing it in the folder in which it was generated
(C:\Temp\mod_perl-2.0.3\src\modules\perl), which also contained its
manifest file. I've now found that if I copy mod_perl.so (only--i.e. not
the manifest file as well) to another folder (e.g. C:\apache2.2\modules)
then it can no longer find MSVCR80.dll.
If you copy the manifest file as well to
C:\apache2.2\modules, does mod_perl get loaded OK?
So presumably the manifest file didn't get embedded in it after all. It
was only "working" because it happened to have its manifest file right
next to it. If I embed it manually using the command:
mt /nologo /manifest mod_perl.so.manifest /outputresource:mod_perl.so;2
then it does now find MSVCR80.dll.
So the question is: why didn't the manifest-embedding magic in apxs-0.6
work?
I think that's because apxs with mp2 doesn't itself
generate the Makefile; it's mainly used to find paths,
libs, etc. The Makefile is being built by WriteMakefile()
of ModPerl::BuildMM at various places; I'll take a look
at trying to include the appropriate manifest command
in the right spots.
--
best regards,
Randy
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