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Re: Anyone got mod_perl working?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <dhorne at xtra dot co dot nz>,"Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:37:17 +1100
- Subject: Re: Anyone got mod_perl working?
- References: <BLEDKFLJDLPNJONGFLHNMELIBPAB.dhorne@xtra.co.nz>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Horne" <dhorne@xtra.co.nz>
>
> "However, I think that building mod_perl under Cygwin is a not a good
> idea (yet). For example, you won't be able to build libapreq
> (Apache::Request):
> it requires some symbols from apache and under win32 it's impossible
> to link .dll to symbols in .exe which loads this .dll.
> That's why win32 apache is split into Apache.exe and ApacheCore.dll --
> it allows modules to link with ApacheCore.dll. Unfortunately,
> Cygwin builds single httpd.exe binary and libapreq fails to link
> to ap_table_add, ap_getword and many other symbols residing in apache
> binary."
>
> If you have any other ideas, please let me know :)
A .exe is the same as a .dll to Win32. You should be able to link back
to the .exe, if you generate an import library for the exported symbols.
Rob
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