RE: NSAPI snaps build

Hi Pierre,

> Something was wrong with the -latest link, they were referring only to
> the TS versions for the buildconf and configure links. It is fixed
> now. Is it where you see the NSAPI being enabled?

That was exactly my problem. I only clicked on the href to the log file and
the wrong one was displayed. Now everything is OK.
> > I will then test tomorrow, as soon as there is again a new VC9 snapshot.
> >
> > FYI: The latest SJSWS 7.0U4 is still linked against VC6, but according
> to my
> > previous mails, it should work because VC6 and VC9 CRTs can coexist as
> long
> > as no resources are shared between both CRTs. NSAPI has a private API,
> the
> > only shared structs between VC6 and VC9 would be: "struct stat", which
> is
> > hopefully identical. All other resources used as parameters to functions
> are
> > simple handles or private structs. No malloc or other CRT resources are
> > shared/used.
> 
> No handle either? But if you can test (if not already done) them and
> confirm that we can use them safely with our VC9 builds, then I will
> simply add them back.

I tested SJSWS 7.0u4 in Windows XP locally installed. The server starts
correctly with VC6 and VC9. A phpinfo() page is displayed without problems,
the NSAPI-specific dynamic linking of the undocumented webserver API for the
virtual() call is working, and the only problematic "struct stat" symbol
sharing is working correctly. This was checked with getlastmod() PHP
function, that uses the stat cache of the webserver (which returns the
pointer to a struct stat from VC6).

To enable it, you must install a shared msvcr90 (using the MS installer).
Copying somewhere is too complicated (as the webserver runs in another
directory as PHP and so the msvcr90.dll is not found on startup/module load.

So no problems with NSAPI, it is compatible with the sun webserver (version
7.0 using VC6 and msvcrt). It again shows, that it is possible, that two
CRTs can be parallel in one process as long as no incompatible resources are
shared between both.

A test with a real windows server is not needed, as the VC6/VC9 problem does
not have to do anything with the OS kernel.

So please enable NSAPI again for both VC6 and VC9 thread-safe and mark it as
officially supported by me :)

Uwe