Compiling Apache2 under Cygwin with .so support

[Max Bowsher]

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I'm taking this conversation back on-list.

Tod wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Tod wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to compile Apache 2.0.54 under Cygwin.  I do this because I
>>> like to keep the same configuration and file system organization to make
>>> my build as portable as possbile under the different Unices I work with.
>>>
>>> I like to compile apache with DSO support and all modules as shared
>>> objects.  The compile seems to work fine but when I do the install all
>>> the modules are named with either an .a or .la extension - I'm expecting
>>> .so.  From various threads I've read there seems to be an issue with
>>> libtool that contributes to this.
...
>> Have you not noticed that apache2 (with .so support) is available as
>> an official Cygwin package through setup.exe ??
...
> Yes I did.  I tried to pick up the source to see how the build was done
> but the source option was not available.

The source is definitely on the mirrors.

> I always build Apache by hand.  See my initial portability comment above.

Wouldn't a few symlinks accomplish the same purpose with much less fuss?

> If push comes to shove I may have to use the official Cygwin port but
> I'd like to be able to just do a ./configure and make like I do on the
> other platforms :)

Patches are necessary to get things building dynamically on Cygwin, so any 
existing build recipe alone won't be enough.

>>> Incidentally mod_php,
>>> and mySQL is next so advice there would be appreciated  too.
>>
>> I've got php5 to compile, but I've got a fair bit of work to do on it
>> before I can release an official package.
>
> When you say you got php to compile did you mean as an Apache module?

Yes.

Max.


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