Topic: Trying to compile mod_websocket_vnc_proxy ?

[4llan]

Hi there!

I'm trying to compile mod_websocket_vnc_proxy in Windows, and I'm getting various errors.

abligh posted source code in github: https://github.com/abligh/apache-websocket

I can compile mod_websocket.c, but i can't mod_websocket_vnc_proxy.c

Please Stephen, can you take a look at this (specially "vncproxy" folder)?

Thanks so much

[Steffen]

What errors do you get ?

[4llan]

First: error C2016: “C requires that a struct or union has at least one member”

and exceeds 100 errors

...
mod_websocket_vnc_proxy.c(115) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'uint32_t'
mod_websocket_vnc_proxy.c(116) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'version'
mod_websocket_vnc_proxy.c(116) : error C2059: syntax error : ';'
mod_websocket_vnc_proxy.c(117) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'length'
...
mod_websocket_vnc_proxy.c(482) : fatal error C1003: error count exceeds 100; stopping compilation
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=131072

Thanks for looking at this!

[Steffen]

Better to report it to the Author to get it build on windows. Policy is that I am not struggling with not working code from others. I always contact the author.

[4llan]

Err... You receive the same errors when try to compile, Steffen? (Could you, patiently, try to compile this module?)

Anyways: Thank you, Steffen. I'll do that.

I posted here just to confirm if it's a Windows problem, or my problem!

Best regards

[James Blond]

[glsmith]

It's beyond that.

This module was not written with portability in mind. It's written for GNU C++ (read linux). You could probably compile with MinGW/MSYS as is but would take quite some work to make it compile on Windows with VC++.

Right out the gate is uint16_t and uint32_t, both are non-standard types. There are declarations as needed all over the thing and VC++ simply doesn't allow that.

All that is relatively easy to fix till you get to line 657;
apr_pollfd_t recvpfd = { tpd->threadpool, APR_POLL_SOCKET, APR_POLLIN, 0, { NULL }, NULL };

cannot covert void* to apr_pollfd_t, which seems an odd error but I did not try to figure it out.

[4llan]

Yeah... I'm giving up of compiling this module on Windows.

Anyways, thank you James Blond, glsmith and Steffen!

Now I'm using Node.js to proxy TCP connections. But all I wanted is handle this with Apache...

Cheers