Re: Compiling 2.0.9 with Strawberry Perl 5.20 on windows (64Bit)

If it may help : Steve Hay was very helpful to me some time (and Apache/perl versions) 
ago, building new binary versions on request. I'd suggest to drop him a line.

On 03.09.2017 19:51, Randolf Richardson wrote:
> 	There's no need to apologize -- you also pose a good question.
>
> 	I couldn't find binaries, but I did find Steve Hay's name in CPAN
> with a source-only downloadable 2.0.10 version, here:
>
> 		https://metacpan.org/release/mod_perl
>
> 	If you check the left-hand side, you should see a "Download" link
> which will get you a .tar.gz file containing full sources.  I could
> not find any .DLL files in that archive, but upon a cursory look
> there does seem to be instructions for compiling on Windows.
>
> 	Since I only use mod_perl2 on Unix, I don't know anything about how
> to get it compiled on Windows, and more importantly I don't have the
> tools to do this with (I also couldn't get MingW to work properly,
> but to be fair I also didn't spend a whole lot of time on it).
>
> 	I do think, however, that it could be very beneficial to the ModPerl
> project because it would probably result in more people using ModPerl
> on Windows servers.  In particular, the Windows binaries have always
> been difficult to obtain, and I noticed this a long time ago when I
> had to get it working on a few servers owned by clients that were
> running Apache HTTPd on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 7.
>
> 	What I think should be available in terms of binaries are 32-bit and
> 64-bit versions that will work with Strawberry Perl and also
> ActiveState Perl (if that requires separate downloads, so be it as
> long as it's available), plus any other major Perl distributions (I'm
> not aware of any).  And it's also important that the download include
> the various "Apache2" packages (modules) in compiled form too so that
> users don't have to spend time finding them (for me, Apache2::Reload
> usually had to be obtained from elsewere and it wasn't always easy to
> find back then; ditto for a few other modules I've since forgotten).
>
> 	I don't know how difficult this is, but if it's possible to run a
> Unix script that cross-compiles all of these then I'd be willing to
> do that and even host it on http://www.modperl.pl/ (a web site I
> started a few years ago but haven't done much with yet) for free
> download by the public.  I think it would be better for those files
> to be available through the official mod_perl web site, however.
>
> 	The bottom line is that on Unix (and Linux) it's usually not a
> problem to compile mod_perl2 from sources since most Unix/Linux users
> are already familiar with this, and also many flavours of Unix (and
> distributions of Linux) have binary repositories that pre-compiled
> software can be downloaded and installed from.  With Windows, the
> problem is that most users don't know how to compile code from
> sources, primarily because they're accustomed to installing software
> that was pre-compiled by the respective vendors, and so when they
> encounter source code that must be compiled they often give up and
> seek other solutions, but if they had binaries that they could just
> easily copy then I suspect that there could be a lot more mod_perl2
> installations running on Apache 2.4 (and 2.2) on Windows.
>
>> I apologize for resurrecting a long-idle thread, but I haven't been able to find any newer binaries for mod_perl than 2.0.8 for Perl 5.20.1 (from http://people.apache.org/~stevehay/).  Are there newer binaries available anywhere that I just haven't been successful in locating?  Ideally, I'd like to get into the mod_perl 2.0.10 / Perl 5.22 for 64bit on windows (I use the 64-bit Apache for windows from apachelounge).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> 	Lewis Foster
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Hay [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 8:06 AM
>> To: Thomas den Braber <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Compiling 2.0.9 with Strawberry Perl 5.20 on windows (64Bit)
>>
>> On 2 November 2015 at 09:42, Thomas den Braber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I will make new binaries for 2.0.9 soon, but want to get mod_perl
>>>> working with Perl 5.22.x first.
>>>
>>> That is great I will be looking forward to it.
>>> Will that be for Apache 2.4 or 2.2, or both ?
>>>
>>> 2.09 with Strawberry Perl 5.22 and Apache 2.4. It sound like a winner!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I will make 2.0.9 binaries for httpd-2.2 and -2.4, hopefully with both
>> perl-5.20 and -5.22, but the -5.22 fix isn't done yet...
>>
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