On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:47 PM Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
I see I forgot two "copies" here:
put built openssl under httpd\srclib (and name it 'openssl')
put built zlib under httpd\srclib (and name it 'zlib')
The directories below srclib should be:
apr
apr-iconv
apr-util
openssl
pcre
zlib
> 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
>
--
Johan
Received on 2020-04-19 19:45:15 CEST