Topic: Error when compiling Apache 2.4.10 with Visual Studio 2013

[Asim Omer]

Hi,

I tried to compile Apache 2.4.10 with Visual Studio 2013 but with no luck.

I followed these steps from this forum (of course changing the paths as needed):

[glsmith]

Are we supposed to guess which errors you may or may not have gotten?

[Asim Omer]

Here are the error logs:

http://www.mediafire.com/?489s95tdz1g76o5

[glsmith]

1>apr_atomic.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __InterlockedIncrement referenced in function _apr_atomic_inc32@4
1>apr_atomic.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __InterlockedExchangeAdd referenced in function _apr_atomic_add32@8
1>apr_atomic.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __InterlockedExchange referenced in function _apr_atomic_set32@8
1>apr_atomic.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __InterlockedDecrement referenced in function _apr_atomic_dec32@4
1>apr_atomic.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __InterlockedCompareExchange referenced in function _apr_atomic_cas32@12


I now remember seeing talk about this some time ago, looking back I see this email with a patch attached, you can try it.
http://marc.info/?l=apr-dev&m=138386228311375&w=2

Also, in srclib/apr-iconv/build/modules.mk.win search for and remove these:
/Yciconv.h
/Yuiconv.h

I'm not sure you need to do this step in VS 2010 and up, you may have to try both ways.
srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -2005

[Asim Omer]

After a lot of work I minimized the number of errors from 139 to just 25.

I have tried both ways with cvtdsp.pl and without it.

And I have tried everything you said to me.

Here are the new logs:

https://www.mediafire.com/?adas5dyflo95d74

[gijs]

If you get it to work with VS 2013 can you upload your project files, I'd like to try some other compilers to compile Apache.

[glsmith]

Your last 7zip archive was corrupted, but I'd rather not be going to mediafire. This is what pastebin.com is for.

Now this is typical of M$ in the past few years, I'm at update 3 and it still cannot keep track of what it's doing.

------ Build started: Project: libapriconv, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
iconv.c
iconv_ces.c
iconv_ces_euc.c
iconv_ces_iso2022.c
iconv_int.c
iconv_module.c
iconv_uc.c
Generating Code...
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'E:\httpd-2.4.10-vs12\srclib\apr\Debug\libapr-1.lib'
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I am building a Release build but it is looking in the Debug builds directories to get the libs to link against. It's not a problem of the conversion because the projects properties for Release build are correct. It's simply a bug in VS12 itself or possibly have something to do with this;

please make sure that $(OutDir), $(TargetName) and $(TargetExt) property values match the value specified in %(Link.OutputFile).

Versions prior to 2010 were much more forgiving I guess.

I've found a kludge for this, you cannot remove the Debug build but you can disable it. It takes time to uncheck all 150 projects but it seems to be working for me.

The ApacheMonitor is a problem I need to look into, that is the only thing that failed to build.

I did not however build all the extra modules that require 3rd party dependencies (mods deflate, lua, proxy_html, ssl, xml2enc and abs.exe). I wanted to sink my teeth into it first. I play with this more tomorrow and see what I come up with.

http://pastebin.com/S6FzjudR

[glsmith]

ApacheMonitor is as simple as changing the property for Embed Manifest to no.

[Asim Omer]

I have successfully compiled Apache With Visual Studio 2013 thank you glsmith for your assistance .

Here are the project files:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfb7noxntu3u3sy/httpd-2.4.10.zip?dl=0

Here are the binaries if any one is interested:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5vjz9npqpe8w2ry/httpd-2.4.10-win32-VC12.zip?dl=0

Note:

The binaries and the project files use the following:

IPv6 and Crypto enabled, apr-1.5.1 apr-util-1.5.4 apr-iconv-1.2.1 openssl-1.0.1i zlib-1.2.8 pcre-8.35 libxml2-2.9.1 lua-5.1.5 expat-2.1.0

So they are pretty much updated and have a newer version of apr-util than the binaries provided here in Apache Lounge and more importantly built with Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.

To use the binaries be sure you have installed the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.

Download and install, if you not have it already, from:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

P.S:

If any one want the 64-bit version I am ready to do it.

[elav83]

Hello Asim Omer,

Can u please share the procedure for building Apache 2.4.10 with VS2013 in 64bit windows machine?