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Topic: HOWTO: Building Apache and dependencies using CMake

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Topic: HOWTO: Building Apache and dependencies using CMake

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- Bump batch file code for package release updates:

CURL (7.81.0)
EXPAT (2.4.2)

- Change LUA option LUA_COMPAT_ALL to LUA_COMPAT_5_3.
- Patch APR (1.7.0) for handle leak (PR 61165 [Ivan Zhakov]). Notable impact with ModSecurity.
- Refine some of the Perl patch edit code.
- Update VCVARSALL script path for MS Visual Studio 2022 (VS17).

After investigating the assembler code options with ZLIB, mentioned above by Steffen, have decided to not include an option for it. As it stands, the CMakeLists.txt file for ZLIB 1.2.11 has logic to support this assembler feature, but is missing a reference to compile contrib\masmx64\inffas8664.c. With that added, the 64 bit version builds and works fine, but the 32 bit version generates a segfault. For those interested, the last entry at the following Stackoverflow page details this problem, and a GitHub patch workaround (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29505121/cmake-zlib-build-on-windows). Nonetheless, since this is an optional speed enhancement, we stick with the official release without the assembler code.

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These updates match Steffen's 2.4.53 release built using PCRE2, plus the option to use OpenSSL3.

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic. Details are:

- Bump batch file code for recent package release updates:

CURL (7.82.0)
EXPAT (2.4.7)
HTTPD (2.4.53)
LUA (5.4.4)
NGHTTP2 (1.47.0)
OPENSSL (1.1.1n/3.0.2)
PCRE2 (10.39)

- Provide option to build PCRE2 (default) rather than PCRE
- Provide option to build OpenSSL3 rather than OpenSSL (default)

[Jan-E]

LUA 5.4.4? Should not that be LUA 5.2.4?

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For my sins, I've been building with LUA 5.4 series for some time. Only just realised Steffen's site build uses LUA 5.2, as you point out.

I'll leave it at 5.4.x unless there's a specific reason to downgrade it. Users can always choose what package versions they want anyway, if there's a dependency.

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These updates match Steffen's 2.4.54 release changes, using PCRE2 plus the option to use OpenSSL3.

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before. Release details are:

CURL (7.83.1)
EXPAT (2.4.8)
HTTPD (2.4.54)
LIBXML2 (2.9.14)
OPENSSL (1.1.1o/3.0.3)
PCRE2 (10.40)
ZLIB (1.2.12)

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's recent release changes:

CURL (7.86.0)
EXPAT (2.5.0)
LIBXML2 (2.10.3)
OPENSSL (1.1.1s/3.0.7)
ZLIB (1.2.13)

Also switch the build default to OpenSSL V3 series.
Set option for CURL default SSL backend to Schannel rather than OpenSSL.
Note you can change the SSL backend at run time with environment variable CURL_SSL_BACKEND.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's recent 2.4.55 release changes:

APR (1.7.2)
APR-UTIL (1.6.3)
CURL (7.87.0)
HTTPD (2.4.55)
NGHTTP2 (1.51.0)
PCRE2 (10.4.2)

Note, above build batch file logic has been updated to remove previous APR point patches.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's recent 2.4.56 release changes:

CURL (7.88.1)
HTTPD (2.4.56)
NGHTTP2 (1.52.0)
OPENSSL(1.1.1t/3.0.8)

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's recent 2.4.57 release changes:

APR (1.7.4)
CURL (8.0.1)
HTTPD (2.4.57)
LIBXML2 (2.11.2)
OPENSSL(1.1.1t/3.1.0)

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's latest 2.4.57 release changes:

CURL (8.2.1)
LIBXML2 (2.11.5)
LUA (5.4.6)
NGHTTP2 (1.55.1)
OPENSSL(1.1.1v/3.1.2)

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's latest 2.4.58 release changes:

BROTLI (1.1.0)
CURL (8.4.0)
HTTPD (2.4.58)
NGHTTP2 (1.57.0)
OPENSSL(1.1.1w/3.1.3)

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.

[kimboslice]

Having some issues getting openssl to build

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Your problem isn't with OpenSSL, but rather your Perl installation doesn't include the locale/Maketext/Simple.pm module, as indicated by the first line of your log messages.

This module comes as standard with the Strawberry Perl I build with on Windows, but you should be able to install it using CPAN.

Check for it's presence from the command line with the following, which should produce no output.

[kimboslice]

I believe theres a small error in the script, you show the folder structure as having pcre-10.42 but the script looks for pcre2-10.42

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Thank you for this pointing out.

The error was in the view of the folder structure, not the script per se, and arose when the build default was updated from PCRE to PCRE2

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's recent 2.4.58 release changes:

CURL (8.6.0)
LIBXML2 (2.12.5)
NGHTTP2 (1.59.0)
OPENSSL (3.1.5)
ZLIB (1.3.1).

Also update build batch file to patch HTTPD ApacheMonitor.rc file to comment out MANIFEST file reference, which otherwise causes a duplicate resource cvtres/link error following recent updates to VS2022.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's latest HTTPD 2.4.59 release changes:

CURL (8.7.1)
EXPAT (2.6.2)
HTTPD (2.4.59)
LIBXML2 (2.12.6)
NGHTTP2 (1.61.0)
PCRE2 (10.43)

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's latest HTTPD 2.4.59 release changes:

CURL (8.8.0)
HTTPD (2.4.59)
LIBXML2 (2.12.7)
NGHTTP2 (1.62.1)
OPENSSL (3.1.6)
PCRE2 (10.44)

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.

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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's latest HTTPD 2.4.62 release changes:

HTTPD (2.4.62)
LIBXML2 (2.13.2)
LUA (5.4.7)

Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.

[ranemstsage]

Thank you for the guide, i kind of combined it with the githb for srcs was running into a few issues had to update the bat for expat being in a subfolder called expat and lua being in default dir not src/ like the tarball. but so far so good!

*It didn't like my expat change so just moved expat up one level and it's working.