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May 14, 2012, 1:03 PM

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Windows binaries

Dear all,

I would be pleased to learn if there is any interest for Windows
binaries of Apache/Perl/mod_perl/libapreq to be made available to
replace the very out of date ones currently available at
http://perl.apache.org/dist/win32-bin

If there is then I would be happy to do what I can to provide some. As
an example, I've put together two builds of Apache 2.2.22 + Perl
5.14.2 + mod_perl 2.0.6 + libapreq 2.13: one with VC++ 6.0 (as per
ActivePerl) and another with VC++ 2010 (the latest version available).
They're both 32-bit release-mode builds with default configuration
options.

Before I consider producing any more varieties (hopefully 64-bit if
possible, possibly debug-mode, maybe with different Perl configuration
options (e.g. I normally use a perl built without PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
defined) and definitely as and when significant new versions of the
packages involved are released (e.g. the upcoming 5.16.0)), please
would anyone interested take a look and let me know wwhether this
would be a useful thing to have available in the future and what
configurations would be desirable.

Note that I haven't made .exe installer programs like the sadly
departed Randy Kobes had done with the binaries currently at the
location cited above. Instead, mine are just simple .zip files, but
given that no installation as such is required anyway (you only need
to unzip them, edit httpd.conf as required and off you go!), I don't
think that's a problem. There is plenty of documentation around about
how to set up these things, so I've just included a README.txt
pointing to the relevant websites.

I've uploaded the files to the following temporary location for your
consideration: http://users.perl5.git.perl.org/~steveh/

I've also put a slightly updated version of the apxs_win32 package in
the same place, just tweaked very slightly to avoid a warning about
assignments to $[ no longer being allowed.

Would ppm packages for ActivePerl be useful? So far I've not had a
chance to look into them, but will do so if there is interest in this.

Steve

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asymmetric.warfare at gmx

May 16, 2012, 1:39 PM

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Re: Windows binaries [In reply to]

Hello Steve,

Steve Hay-2 wrote:
>
> If there is then I would be happy to do what I can to provide some. As
> an example, I've put together two builds of Apache 2.2.22 + Perl
> 5.14.2 + mod_perl 2.0.6 + libapreq 2.13: one with VC++ 6.0 (as per
> ActivePerl) and another with VC++ 2010 (the latest version available).
> They're both 32-bit release-mode builds with default configuration
> options.
>

What you could try, this would save you world wide fame,
is to provide a mod_perl 2.0.6 binary that works with VC9/VC10
Apache 2.4.x (eg. from http://http://www.apachelounge.com/ apachelounge ).

Any other configuration (lower Apache versions) is not such
a challenge that would require your valuable time. Also, drop
(IMHO) the VC6 tool chain, probably not widely needed.

What anybody wants (as is already possible with PHP 5.4 on Apache 2.4.2)
is to use a contemporary Perl (5.14) with a contemporary Apache2.

Thanks & regards

rbo

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steve.m.hay at googlemail

May 27, 2012, 11:21 AM

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Re: Windows binaries [In reply to]

On 16 May 2012 21:39, rubberboots <asymmetric.warfare [at] gmx> wrote:
>
> Hello Steve,
>
>
> Steve Hay-2 wrote:
>>
>> If there is then I would be happy to do what I can to provide some. As
>> an example, I've put together two builds of Apache 2.2.22 + Perl
>> 5.14.2 + mod_perl 2.0.6 + libapreq 2.13: one with VC++ 6.0 (as per
>> ActivePerl) and another with VC++ 2010 (the latest version available).
>> They're both 32-bit release-mode builds with default configuration
>> options.
>>
>
> What you could try, this would save you world wide fame,
> is to provide a mod_perl 2.0.6 binary that works with VC9/VC10
> Apache 2.4.x (eg. from http://http://www.apachelounge.com/ apachelounge ).
>
> Any other configuration (lower Apache versions) is not such
> a challenge that would require your valuable time. Also, drop
> (IMHO) the VC6 tool chain, probably not widely needed.
>
> What anybody wants (as is already possible with PHP 5.4 on Apache 2.4.2)
> is to use a contemporary Perl (5.14) with a contemporary Apache2.
>

I would only be looking to provide binaries of official mod_perl
releases. I hope that 2.0.7 will include support for httpd 2.4.x, but
until then my proposed binaries would only support 2.2.x. The point of
VC6 binaries was for better compatibility with ActivePerl, which is
built with VC6.

However, I'm unlikely to go ahead with this now anyway since there
seems to be little need for it. That's good news, really, since it
indicates that building mod_perl is not a difficult thing anyway :-)

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john.deighan at gmail

Jul 10, 2012, 7:33 AM

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Re: Windows binaries [In reply to]

I would be *very* interested in a working mod_perl 2.0.6 or 2.0.7 for Windows
- compatible with either ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl. As far as I'm aware,
only binaries for mod_perl 2.0.4 are currently available and we're getting
consistent crashes with it that, I believe, may be fixed in later versions.
This would be a tremendous help for us as we currently rely on mod_perl but
are stuck at Perl 5.8 due to this bug.

Steve Hay-2 wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would be pleased to learn if there is any interest for Windows
> binaries of Apache/Perl/mod_perl/libapreq to be made available to
> replace the very out of date ones currently available at
> http://perl.apache.org/dist/win32-bin
>
> If there is then I would be happy to do what I can to provide some. As
> an example, I've put together two builds of Apache 2.2.22 + Perl
> 5.14.2 + mod_perl 2.0.6 + libapreq 2.13: one with VC++ 6.0 (as per
> ActivePerl) and another with VC++ 2010 (the latest version available).
> They're both 32-bit release-mode builds with default configuration
> options.
>
> Before I consider producing any more varieties (hopefully 64-bit if
> possible, possibly debug-mode, maybe with different Perl configuration
> options (e.g. I normally use a perl built without PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
> defined) and definitely as and when significant new versions of the
> packages involved are released (e.g. the upcoming 5.16.0)), please
> would anyone interested take a look and let me know wwhether this
> would be a useful thing to have available in the future and what
> configurations would be desirable.
>
> Note that I haven't made .exe installer programs like the sadly
> departed Randy Kobes had done with the binaries currently at the
> location cited above. Instead, mine are just simple .zip files, but
> given that no installation as such is required anyway (you only need
> to unzip them, edit httpd.conf as required and off you go!), I don't
> think that's a problem. There is plenty of documentation around about
> how to set up these things, so I've just included a README.txt
> pointing to the relevant websites.
>
> I've uploaded the files to the following temporary location for your
> consideration: http://users.perl5.git.perl.org/~steveh/
>
> I've also put a slightly updated version of the apxs_win32 package in
> the same place, just tweaked very slightly to avoid a warning about
> assignments to $[ no longer being allowed.
>
> Would ppm packages for ActivePerl be useful? So far I've not had a
> chance to look into them, but will do so if there is interest in this.
>
> Steve
>
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michiel.beijen at GMAIL

Aug 31, 2012, 3:33 AM

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Re: Windows binaries [In reply to]

Hi Steve,

> Steve Hay wrote:
>
> However, I'm unlikely to go ahead with this now anyway since there
> seems to be little need for it. That's good news, really, since it
> indicates that building mod_perl is not a difficult thing anyway :-)

It might be you asked on the wrong mailing list; or that other people are
subscribed to the wrong mailing lists :D
On the win32-perl mailing list people asked for updated mod_perl libraries
multiple times. And I tried to compile the module myself as well but failed
miserably. Mostly, because StrawberryPerl uses MinGW and Apache itself only
compiles with Visual Studio. And I also tried compiling a perl from scratch
with Visual Studio, but then I ran into the APXS issues which it seems you
fixed.

I used your supplied zip-files and they work for me perfectly! I think it
would be awesome if it would be possible to install a recent mod_perl on
either StrawberryPerl or ActiveState easily; or if you can make the
procedure you used to compile mod_perl on Windows available?

Hope to hear from you!
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shane at aptest

Aug 31, 2012, 7:10 AM

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Re: Windows binaries [In reply to]

I concur! We have a number of clients who use Apache + Strawberry Perl
and we would benefit from something more recent than the SP 5.12 version
of 2.04 that we currently recommend.

On 8/31/2012 5:33 AM, Michiel Beijen wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>> Steve Hay wrote:
>>
>> However, I'm unlikely to go ahead with this now anyway since there
>> seems to be little need for it. That's good news, really, since it
>> indicates that building mod_perl is not a difficult thing anyway :-)
> It might be you asked on the wrong mailing list; or that other people are
> subscribed to the wrong mailing lists :D
> On the win32-perl mailing list people asked for updated mod_perl libraries
> multiple times. And I tried to compile the module myself as well but failed
> miserably. Mostly, because StrawberryPerl uses MinGW and Apache itself only
> compiles with Visual Studio. And I also tried compiling a perl from scratch
> with Visual Studio, but then I ran into the APXS issues which it seems you
> fixed.
>
> I used your supplied zip-files and they work for me perfectly! I think it
> would be awesome if it would be possible to install a recent mod_perl on
> either StrawberryPerl or ActiveState easily; or if you can make the
> procedure you used to compile mod_perl on Windows available?
>
> Hope to hear from you!
> --
> Mike

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steve.m.hay at googlemail

Aug 31, 2012, 6:12 PM

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Re: Windows binaries [In reply to]

In the light of sufficient interest from enough people, I've now
created and uploaded binary builds of mod_perl-2.0.7 and
libapreq2-2.13 components compatible with Apache Lounge 2.2.23 Build
24 August 2012 (win32) and each of:

* ActivePerl 5.16.0 Build 1600 (x86)
* Strawberry Perl 5.16.0 Build 1 (32bit)

You can download them from http://people.apache.org/~stevehay/

Please let me know if you find them useful or have any problems, or
would still like to see available the complete Apache + Perl +
mod_perl binaries which I previously uploaded elsewhere.

Regards,
Steve

On 31 August 2012 15:10, Shane McCarron <shane [at] aptest> wrote:
> I concur! We have a number of clients who use Apache + Strawberry Perl and
> we would benefit from something more recent than the SP 5.12 version of 2.04
> that we currently recommend.
>
>
> On 8/31/2012 5:33 AM, Michiel Beijen wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>>> Steve Hay wrote:
>>>
>>> However, I'm unlikely to go ahead with this now anyway since there
>>> seems to be little need for it. That's good news, really, since it
>>> indicates that building mod_perl is not a difficult thing anyway :-)
>>
>> It might be you asked on the wrong mailing list; or that other people are
>> subscribed to the wrong mailing lists :D
>> On the win32-perl mailing list people asked for updated mod_perl libraries
>> multiple times. And I tried to compile the module myself as well but
>> failed
>> miserably. Mostly, because StrawberryPerl uses MinGW and Apache itself
>> only
>> compiles with Visual Studio. And I also tried compiling a perl from
>> scratch
>> with Visual Studio, but then I ran into the APXS issues which it seems you
>> fixed.
>>
>> I used your supplied zip-files and they work for me perfectly! I think it
>> would be awesome if it would be possible to install a recent mod_perl on
>> either StrawberryPerl or ActiveState easily; or if you can make the
>> procedure you used to compile mod_perl on Windows available?
>>
>> Hope to hear from you!
>> --
>> Mike
>
>
> --
> Shane McCarron
> Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
> +1 763 786 8160 x120
>
>
>
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