Re: Strawberry perl + mod_perl (call for testers)

On 09.07.2010 22:16 Michael Ludwig wrote:

> Relevant or not, this story makes me ask the following questions:
> Are there any people on this list using mod_perl 2.0 on Windows?
> Do you have any positive or negative experiences to share?

I use it for a web based application but have/had some problems.

First it was very difficult to get a tool chain that works well with
each other: Apache, Perl, mod_perl, several binary modules from
different sources, some from PPM repositories, some self-compiled
because I couldn't find a (recent) precompiled version.
After some "DLL hell" (or whatever incompatibilities) I got a version
that worked quite well by compiling everything myself (except very few
modules where I was not able to do so) with the old MS VC6 compiler
(with some updates and addons from MS).

As I said this worked quite well with one exception: I got memory
problems. I had to restart Apache after some time to reclaim the memory.
This is the reason why I am in the process to migrate the whole thing to
Linux (prefork MPM).
But even then I plan to do development on a Windows box where I still
feel more comfortable. For this the newly announced tool chain with
Strawberry perl might be an option.
Are there other recommendations how to get a well behaving, stable,
extensible (also with XS modules) and modern mod_perl installation for
Windows?

-Michael