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

You need to build perl yourself using VC/nmake too or else find some
other binary build using VC/nmake because ActivePerl actually uses
gcc/dmake just like Strawberry Perl these days...

On 6 October 2014 15:23, Mathieu Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2014-10-02 10:27 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Simon <[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/