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Re: Release Notes: TODO regarding Py3 support

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:47:30 +0200

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:12 AM Nathan Hartman <hartman.nathan_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:07 PM Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps that needs at least a mention in some "known issues" section.
> > For normal users this doesn't matter much of course, and judging from
> > the amount of Windows sigs for 1.14 I doubt even one single other
> > person beside me is building and running tests on Windows :-).
>
> Would you be willing to send me whatever notes you have on the steps
> to set up a Windows dev/testing environment, even if they're rough? I
> know it's a frightening process. But between INSTALL,
> tools/dev/windows-build, and any hints you can provide, I'll try to
> get something going.

Hi Nathan,

Sure! Any help on the Windows-side of things would be definitely
appreciated.

For context: I'm not a very experienced C developer (I do have 20+ years of
java development experience). I understand the syntax and can come up with
small patches, but I lose most of the time with trivial "setup" things,
like bootstrapping a decent build environment, finding my way around the
IDE, and solving linker problems etc. Things that might be obvious for
seasoned C people, but look like a big impenetrable mess to me sometimes
:-).

I'm using an adapted version of the Makefile from tools/dev/windows-build.
I put this in the root folder of the subversion checkout / zip-extraction.
I use Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition (Version 16.5.3, or whatever the
last one is).

INSTALL contains a lot of info, but I've learned to ignore some of it
(because it refers to "old stuff"). I know I should probably start editing
/ patching it to get it in a better shape, but usually I'm pretty exhausted
after finally having been able to complete setting up a build (it took me 4
days this time), that I just cannot muster up the energy anymore.

Building the dependencies is the hard part.
I'm a bit short on time right now, so I'll just dump some rough notes here
(might contain some hidden assumptions, but I'm not sure):

- Get the following tools, and make sure they are in your PATH:
* Perl (I've taken the last Strawberry distribution from perl.org)
* Python from python.org (download both a 2.7 and a 3.x build, you'll
probably need both, as there are still problems with 3.x for svn builds).
* awk (from https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk95.exe)
* test.exe, from GnuWin32 (used by that Makefile from
tools/dev/windows-build)

For the moment, I started with a x86 (32-bit) build, mainly in Release
configuration (some builds do both). Later I'll try to go for x64 build.

zlib:
    # clean: nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc clean
    nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc
    nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc test
    (workaround for svn build: it looks for zlibstat.lib) nmake /nologo -f
win32/Makefile.msc STATICLIB=zlibstat.lib all

    building DEBUG configuration:
    set CC_OPTS=/MDd /Gm /ZI /Od /GZ /D_DEBUG
    nmake /nologo -f win32/Makefile.msc STATICLIB=zlibstatD.lib all

    Do not try to build the assembler optimized versions, it causes
headaches

openssl:
    Need Netwide Assembler, a.k.a. NASM, available from https://www.nasm.us
(after install, put in PATH)
    perl Configure enable-zlib --with-zlib-include=../zlib-1.2.11
--with-zlib-lib=../zlib-1.2.11/zlib.lib VC-WIN32
    For openssl 1.0.2*:
      call ms\do_nasm
      nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
      nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak test
    For openssl 1.1.x:
      nmake
      nmake test

PCRE (from pcre.org, needed for httpd -- not pcre2, only pcre (version 1)
works):
    cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=RelWithDebInfo
-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON -DPCRE_NO_RECURSE:BOOL=ON .
    nmake
    nmake test

expat (needed for httpd / apr-util):
    download and extract expat (https://libexpat.github.io/)
    (Follow instructions from cmake.README):
    cd expat
    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ..
    msbuild expat.sln (debug build)
    msbuild expat.sln /p:Configuration=Release
>>>> This is 64-bit build!! httpd now also needs to be built 64bit
>>>> or: open expat.sln > Configuration Mgr > Add x86 (win32)
configuration, save & exit + edit all vcprojx files and remove "
/machine:x64"

httpd:
    download and extract httpd
    download and extract apr, apr-util, apr-iconv into httpd\srclib\apr
..\apr-util ..\apr-iconv
    Attention: Do not try to use junctions (windows symlinks), just copy
the directories
    Attention 2: Check if the downloaded / extracted files are marked by
Windows as "Blocked" (rightclick -> Properties). If so unblock them in bulk
from within Powershell (Run as Administrator), with "dir -s | Unblock-File".
    put built pcre under httpd\srclib
    put built expat under httpd\srclib\apr-util\xml
    copy libexpat.lib into srclib/apr-util
    copy libexpat.lib from Release and libexpatD.pdb from Debug into
expat\lib\LibR, and name them xml.lib and xml.pdb
    (for debug build) copy libexpatd.lib and libexpatD.pdb from Debug into
expat\lib\LibD, and name them xml.lib and xml.pdb
    edit apr-util\Makefile.win, and unquote libexpat in
XML_PARSER="libexpat"
      see https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@apr.apache.org/msg27347.html
    perl srclib\apr\build\lineends.pl
    perl srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -2005
    (for openssl 1.1.x) perl srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -ossl11
    Open Apache.dsw in VS2019 to let it be converted / upgrade to .sln with
.vcxproj files (made from de .dsp files)
    Strip "/Yuiconv" en "Yciconv" out of
srclib/apr-iconv/build/modules.mk.win (not sure if this is still needed)
    Insert
"<PropertyGroup><GenerateManifest>false</GenerateManifest></PropertyGroup>"
in support/win32/ApacheMonitor.vcxproj
    Insert
"<PropertyGroup><TargetName>libapr-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in
srclib/apr/libapr.vcxproj
    Insert
"<PropertyGroup><TargetName>apr_ldap-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in
srclib/aprutil/ldap/apr_ldap.vcxproj
    Insert
"<PropertyGroup><TargetName>libapriconv-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in
srclib/apr-iconv/libapriconv.vcxproj
    Insert
"<PropertyGroup><TargetName>libaprutil-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in
srclib/aprutil/libaprutil.vcxproj

    Create directory C:\Apache2.4.43 in which the httpd build can be
installed.
    # Add XML_PARSER="libexpat" to nmake commando (
https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@apr.apache.org/msg27346.html)
    nmake /f Makefile.win installr INSTDIR=C:\Apache2.4.43
XML_PARSER="libexpat"
    # If anything fails, first try it again:
    nmake /f Makefile.win installr INSTDIR=C:\Apache2.4.43
XML_PARSER="libexpat"

    Possibly: Rerun _install like this: nmake /f Makefile.win SHORT=R
LONG=Release _install INSTDIR=C:\Apache2.4.43 XML_PARSER="libexpat"
    Possibly: copy apr-util\xml\expat\Release\expat.dll to
C:\Apache2.4.43\bin

serf (the problems here below were just reported to dev_at_serf.a.o):

    Download and install latest scons version, in your Python 2.7
installation (so first make sure Python 2.7 is first in PATH, then run the
installation of scons).
    The serf build does not work with Python 3.x.
    If using openssl 1.1.x, patch serf/SConstruct as follows:
    [[[
--- SConstruct.orig 2020-04-19 15:36:16.257450600 +0200
+++ SConstruct 2020-04-19 15:36:51.855740800 +0200
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
                LIBPATH=['$ZLIB'])

   # openssl
- env.Append(LIBS=['libeay32.lib', 'ssleay32.lib'])
+ env.Append(LIBS=['libcrypto.lib', 'libssl.lib'])
   if not env.get('SOURCE_LAYOUT', None):
     env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/include/openssl'],
                LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL/lib'])
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@
     env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/inc32'],
                LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL/out32'])
   else:
- env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/inc32'],
- LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL/out32dll'])
+ env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/include'],
+ LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL'])
 else:
   if os.path.isdir(apr):
     apr = os.path.join(apr, 'bin', 'apr-1-config')
    ]]]

    With Python 2.7 in PATH, run:
    scons APR=..\httpd-2.4.43\srclib\apr
APU=..\httpd-2.4.43\srclib\apr-util OPENSSL=..\openssl-1.1.1f
ZLIB=..\zlib-1.2.11

    If you get this error:
        scons: *** Invalid value for option MSVC_VERSION: 14.2. Valid
values are: ('14.0', '12.0', '11.0', '10.0', '9.0', '8.0', '6.0')
        File "C:\research\svn\dev\deps\serf-1.3.9\SConstruct", line 157, in
<module>
    Delete the file .saved_config, and try again.

That's it :-).
I'll look up the difference between the Makefile in tools/dev/windows-build
and mine later ...

-- 
Johan
Received on 2020-04-19 17:47:48 CEST

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