RE: Building 2.0.9-dev on Windows w. httpd 2.4

When I did this I built everything: Perl, httpd, and mod_perl myself using VC2008 without using the IDE.

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From: Mathieu Simon [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Building 2.0.9-dev on Windows w. httpd 2.4

Hi

2014-10-02 10:27 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Simon <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:

Aha, so I guess a Visual Studio is required then?
Let me give it a whirl then. :-)
So I had the oppoortunity to give this a bit a test and from what I looks now
the situation is a bit in dare state for building mod_perl for httpd 2.4.x on Windows

- Strawberry Perl fails for mod_perl since its toolchain mostly relies on dmake
  (as previously said, not really working for mod_perl)

- I was able to obtain a (seemingly) apxs_win32 from Apachelounge*
  -> without it you  get the said error with both Windows Perl distributions.

I focussed then on ActivePerl 5.18 since that one seems to be more closely tied to VC - ?

- ActivePerl 5.18 at least contains ExtUtils:Embed 1.3001
  (still fails initially but can be silenced by 'set MP_USE_MY_EXTUTILS_EMBED=1)
- Within the "VS2012 x86 Natvie Tools Command Prompt" and a apxs.bat 'perl Makefile.pl'
  passes with some errors. (some progress at least!)
- However the resulting Makefile doesn't take take care of the Windows environment as it wants to use dmake and gcc

I'm not enough familiar with MakeMaker - any hint how to get further? I compared on a Ubuntu VM
where the SVN HEAD builds properly without issues, so it is a Windows-specific problem.

Best regards
Mat

* https://www.apachelounge.com/download/additional/