Re: Win32 project building
William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which flavor of awk are you using? We strongly recommend the one cited on the 'building_win32' page. DJGPP and GNU awk were both flawed in 3.0.3-3.0.6. You can try manually adjusting that file for valid version tags. Using some clever macros - we may eliminiate the dynamic creation of VERSIONINFO tags in the coming few weeks - It's already in the incubation/httpd/cli/trunk/mod_aspdotnet/ included version file to generate different flavors of the version token, since we need both comma and period delimited flavors. I'll try backporting this change. About your static build - it sounds somehow fatally flawed. I will try to reproduce; note we use VC6 for our dev, test and release, usually. I've used the VC6 built apr in 2003 studio projects, but haven't tried building on 2003 studio in a while. Thanks for your reply. I am using the awk.exe from Brian Kernighan's site as recommended. It's the only awk.exe on my hard drive. The results I showed were using MSVC++ 6.0, but I have also tried MSVC++ .NET 2003, and it produces the same errors: C compiler errors on xlate.c while building apr-util (in both static and dynamic libraries), and failure to generate the VERSIONINFO in the DLL builds. Did I do the right thing in renaming the unzipped directories (removing the -1.0.0 suffix)? That seemed necessary before the .dsw workspace would even open properly. I haven't tried hacking the VERSIONINFO, because I'm happy with the static apr.lib for now; I don't need aprutil.lib or the DLLs quite yet. I'm just trying to provide useful feedback to help you resolve problems with the distribution -- at present I'm not blocked. Keep up the good work -- APR is very useful and is making my project a lot easier. I'm using it from C++, and have wrapped what I use inside my own C++ classes, but I appreciate APR's low-level C architecture -- in fact I chose it over many alternative portability layers because I think you guys got the design choices right. (At Netscape we used NSPR, which all in all I'm glad you didn't perpetuate.) Currently I am trying to rewrite the std C++ operator new and operator delete to use APR memory pools -- with per-thread selection of the current pool -- so 'new' will just work with a pool per thread. The idea is to supply the pool argument as thread context somehow, rather than explicitly. It's kind of challenging to figure out how to do this efficiently enough, given the high frequency of 'new' and the costs of threadkey access. It's an interesting design problem and quite important for multithreaded C++ programs, although it doesn't matter if C is your language. One other thing I miss is a bit more documentation on APR -- beyond the autogenerated API descriptions. Is anyone working on a book? Or just a few more HTML files? It's a bit hard to determine the semantics and usage of some of the APIs. To someone who wasn't part of the developer community that wrote APR, puzzling out exactly what each API is for, and how you use it, from such minimalist doc as a list of function calls and their parameters is challenging, even if you are familiar with the underlying platform-specific APIs they are obviously based on. As a doc substitute, I find greping this mailing list doesn't seem to help as much as I hoped it would, e.g. when I can't tell what the difference is between apr_threadkey_data_get() and apr_threadkey_private_get() from the doxygen pages. I usually end up having the read the .c source, which is educational, I suppose, but it slows me down. Compared to more mature libraries (Berkeley DB comes to mind, because I use that also) the APR doc is, well, still almost absent. Good or bad API doc is a large part of why libraries get used successfully or don't, IMHO. I realize this is just a matter of time. BTW I'd be happy to review / help edit any in-progress API documents that anyone might be working on.
Re: Win32 project building
I have had difficulties building APR 1.0.0 on Win32. I am trying to build in the Visual Studio IDE rather than from the command line. (I have done this successfully before with previous releases of APR; I have installed awk.exe, etc.) But there seem to be some unresolved issues with the 1.0.0 build. I have both Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 available, and have tried both, with similar results. Here is exactly what I got using Visual Studio 6.0. I found that opening the apr-util-1.0.0/aprutil.dsw workspace and building as described in http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html only works partially. First, I had to rename the unzipped directories by removing the '-1.0.0' suffix before I could open the aprutil.dsw successfully. Having done that, I tried building the static libraries, in Debug mode. The following libraries built successfully in apr/LibD: apr-1.lib apr_app-1.lib apriconv-1.lib but apr-util.lib did not; it encountered the following errors: xlate.c C:\ORG\apache\apr-util\xlate\xlate.c(181) : error C2198: 'apr_iconv_close' : too few actual parameters C:\ORG\apache\apr-util\xlate\xlate.c(182) : error C2198: 'apr_iconv_open' : too few actual parameters C:\ORG\apache\apr-util\xlate\xlate.c(182) : warning C4047: '=' : 'void *' differs in levels of indirection from 'int ' apr_xml.c Generating Code... Error executing cl.exe. By excluding xlate.c from the build, and also the ldap_*.c files, I was able to get an apr-util.lib generated; there were lots of multiply defined warnings for symbols also defined in apr-1.lib. Then I tried the dynamic libraries (project libaprutil). It failed immediately with: Configuration: libapr - Win32 Debug--- Creating apr.h from apr.hw Creating Version Resource Compiling resources... C:\ORG\apache\apr\libapr.rc (3): error RC2127 : version WORDs separated by commas expected C:\ORG\apache\apr\libapr.rc (3): error RC2167 : unrecognized VERSIONINFO field; BEGIN or comma expected Error executing rc.exe. libaprutil-1.dll - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s) Regards, -David Christie
Re: Win32 project building
At 02:02 AM 11/12/2004, David Christie wrote: Then I tried the dynamic libraries (project libaprutil). It failed immediately with: Configuration: libapr - Win32 Debug--- Creating apr.h from apr.hw Creating Version Resource Compiling resources... C:\ORG\apache\apr\libapr.rc (3): error RC2127 : version WORDs separated by commas expected C:\ORG\apache\apr\libapr.rc (3): error RC2167 : unrecognized VERSIONINFO field; BEGIN or comma expected Error executing rc.exe. Which flavor of awk are you using? We strongly recommend the one cited on the 'building_win32' page. DJGPP and GNU awk were both flawed in 3.0.3-3.0.6. You can try manually adjusting that file for valid version tags. Using some clever macros - we may eliminiate the dynamic creation of VERSIONINFO tags in the coming few weeks - It's already in the incubation/httpd/cli/trunk/mod_aspdotnet/ included version file to generate different flavors of the version token, since we need both comma and period delimited flavors. I'll try backporting this change. About your static build - it sounds somehow fatally flawed. I will try to reproduce; note we use VC6 for our dev, test and release, usually. I've used the VC6 built apr in 2003 studio projects, but haven't tried building on 2003 studio in a while. Bill
Re: Win32 project building
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Brian King wrote: On 20.10.2004 22:06, Randy Kobes wrote: For the .tar.gz sources, did you run the suggested perl apr\build\lineends.pl apr apr-util to convert to DOS line endings? Also, Yes I did. http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html suggests to use, from the command line, msdev aprutil.dsw /MAKE apr - Win32 Debug ... I was using aprutil.dsw, just a typo in my previous email. If you rename the unpacked source directories: apr-1.0.0 - apr apr-util-1.0.0 - apr-util apr-iconv-1.0.0 - apr-iconv does that help? -- best regards, randy
Win32 project building
I'm just wondering if this is the right list to get support for Win32 building issues. If not, please excuse this post, and if possible suggest other forums if there are any. -- Brian King www.mozdev.org - free project hosting for the mozilla community
Re: Win32 project building
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Brian King wrote: I'm just wondering if this is the right list to get support for Win32 building issues. Um, well, if you mean support for building APR on Win32 or support for building apps with APR on Win32, then the answer is yes. If you just need general help with Win32 application development not related to APR, then no. :-) Thanks, Cliff
Re: Win32 project building
On 20.10.2004 20:34, Cliff Woolley wrote: Um, well, if you mean support for building APR on Win32 or support for building apps with APR on Win32, then the answer is yes. If you just need general help with Win32 application development not related to APR, then no. :-) It's falls closest into the category support for building apps with APR on Win32. The app I'm working on requires apr and aprutil. For the moment I just need to build them. Ok, here's what I did. Downloaded sources: - APR 1.0 (http://mirrors.mix5.com/apache/apr/apr-1.0.0.tar.gz) - APU 1.0 (http://mirrors.mix5.com/apache/apr/apr-util-1.0.0.tar.gz) While following the build instructions: http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html ... Running from the command line: D:\workbase\apr-util-1.0.0msdev aprutil.dsp /MAKE apr - Win32 Debug aprutil - Win32 Debug Warning: ignoring unknown project: aprutil - Win32 Debug Warning: ignoring unknown project: apr - Win32 Debug Error: There are no valid targets to build. When I try to load the project files (*.dsp) directly into the workspace (aprutil.dsw), it prompts me to wrap them in another project because of a makefile incompatibility. Then the projects come up blank. So basically, it doesn't appear to work out of the box. I'm using MSVC++ 6.0. Thanks, -- Brian King www.mozdev.org - free project hosting for the mozilla community
Re: Win32 project building
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Brian King wrote: On 20.10.2004 20:34, Cliff Woolley wrote: Um, well, if you mean support for building APR on Win32 or support for building apps with APR on Win32, then the answer is yes. If you just need general help with Win32 application development not related to APR, then no. :-) It's falls closest into the category support for building apps with APR on Win32. The app I'm working on requires apr and aprutil. For the moment I just need to build them. Ok, here's what I did. Downloaded sources: - APR 1.0 (http://mirrors.mix5.com/apache/apr/apr-1.0.0.tar.gz) - APU 1.0 (http://mirrors.mix5.com/apache/apr/apr-util-1.0.0.tar.gz) While following the build instructions: http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html ... Running from the command line: D:\workbase\apr-util-1.0.0msdev aprutil.dsp /MAKE apr - Win32 Debug aprutil - Win32 Debug Warning: ignoring unknown project: aprutil - Win32 Debug Warning: ignoring unknown project: apr - Win32 Debug Error: There are no valid targets to build. When I try to load the project files (*.dsp) directly into the workspace (aprutil.dsw), it prompts me to wrap them in another project because of a makefile incompatibility. Then the projects come up blank. For the .tar.gz sources, did you run the suggested perl apr\build\lineends.pl apr apr-util to convert to DOS line endings? Also, http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html suggests to use, from the command line, msdev aprutil.dsw /MAKE apr - Win32 Debug ... -- best regards, randy kobes
Re: Win32 project building
On 20.10.2004 22:06, Randy Kobes wrote: For the .tar.gz sources, did you run the suggested perl apr\build\lineends.pl apr apr-util to convert to DOS line endings? Also, Yes I did. http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html suggests to use, from the command line, msdev aprutil.dsw /MAKE apr - Win32 Debug ... I was using aprutil.dsw, just a typo in my previous email. -- Brian King www.mozdev.org - free project hosting for the mozilla community
