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tangent
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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's latest HTTPD 2.4.62 release changes, including other package updates:
APR (1.7.5)
CURL (8.9.1)
LIBXML2 (2.13.3)
NGHTTP2 (1.63.0)
OPENSSL (3.1.7)
Note, the trunk fix patch r1919860 mentioned in the Apache 2.4.62 Changelog has not been applied. Should you wish to, Eric Coverner's patch to mod_rewrite.c (merge r1919860 from trunk), can be downloaded (see https://github.com/apache/httpd/pull/473/files), and applied to the Apache httpd source using a Windows version of the GNU patch utility.
Note concerning CURL 8.9.1 and idn2
CURL 8.9.1 has an updated CMakeLists.txt configuration that uses pkg-config (if available) to search for idn2 library support.
It turns out one is included with Strawberry Perl, but unfortunately that finds static libary libidn2.a in the Perl distribution, which is no use here. So for now the build batch file has been updated to explicitly exclude CURL support for idn2.
Other than that, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.
@ranemstsage: Thanks for your post, and reference to building with git sources directly. This was something I seriously considered when first putting this guide together, but decided the need to be able to build off-line was greater. Maybe you'd care to post your GIT build variant to the HowTo section? |
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ranemstsage
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as soon as i get it fully ironed out. I have been running into some slight issues. I am trying to build it for SVN and redmine. and now it doesn't want to start with mod_dav  |
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tangent
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| Posted: Wed 13 Nov '24 18:56 Post subject: |
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Build dependency updates for various support packages:
CURL (8.11.0)
EXPAT (2.6.4)
LIBXML2 (2.13.5)
NGHTTP2 (1.64.0)
Also patch HTTPD mod_rewrite.c to apply Eric Coverner's trunk fix patch r1919860 as mentioned in the Apache Lounge 2.4.62 Changelog.
Finally, report result of the mklink command when creating APR related symbolic links, in case it fails. Previously, any output of this command was redirected to null, this problem being highlighted in post https://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=9271 |
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tangent
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| Posted: Fri 24 Jan '25 15:37 Post subject: |
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Build dependency updates to match Steffen's latest HTTPD 2.4.63 release changes:
CURL (8.11.1)
HTTPD (2.4.63)
OPENSSL (3.4.0)
Other than release version details, there are no changes to the batch file build logic from before.
Build commentary updated to note that since October 2024, Microsoft has suspended availability of their Windows 11 virtual machine images at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines |
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tanquang
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| Posted: Tue 25 Feb '25 20:36 Post subject: |
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With cURL 8.12.1, if the LibPSL library is not found and the | Code: | | -DCURL_USE_LIBPSL=OFF |
flag is not used when compiling with cmake, an error will be returned. |
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tangent
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| Posted: Tue 25 Feb '25 21:59 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the update concerning libpsl with CURL.
I generally don't scan the build log file for warnings across all the packages, but can see there was a warning returned for this during the CURL 8.11.1 build, viz:
| Code: | -- Could NOT find Libpsl (missing: LIBPSL_INCLUDE_DIR LIBPSL_LIBRARY)
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1162 (message):
libpsl is enabled, but not found.
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So it would seem they've changed the CMakeLists.txt file logic for release 8.12.1 to make this an error.
Since CURL is not the prime target of this HOWTO, rather than try to add logic to build LIBPSL, during the next update I'll revise the build script CMake options for CURL to disable looking for LIBPSL.
I can see LIBPSL does mention building with Visual Studio (NMake), but it also requires Python, ICU libraries, etc. Hence the decision to stick with core packages, the primary requirement being to include those needed to match the binary builds released by the Apache Lounge. |
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tanquang
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| Posted: Wed 26 Feb '25 13:03 Post subject: |
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| tangent wrote: | Thanks for the update concerning libpsl with CURL.
I generally don't scan the build log file for warnings across all the packages, but can see there was a warning returned for this during the CURL 8.11.1 build, viz:
| Code: | -- Could NOT find Libpsl (missing: LIBPSL_INCLUDE_DIR LIBPSL_LIBRARY)
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1162 (message):
libpsl is enabled, but not found.
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So it would seem they've changed the CMakeLists.txt file logic for release 8.12.1 to make this an error.
Since CURL is not the prime target of this HOWTO, rather than try to add logic to build LIBPSL, during the next update I'll revise the build script CMake options for CURL to disable looking for LIBPSL.
I can see LIBPSL does mention building with Visual Studio (NMake), but it also requires Python, ICU libraries, etc. Hence the decision to stick with core packages, the primary requirement being to include those needed to match the binary builds released by the Apache Lounge. |
I created an issue related to the libpsl library on the cURL repository: libpsl should not be marked REQUIRED in CMakeLists.txt
As explained by cURL members, libpsl is needed for secure cookie handling, but compiling it is currently quite complicated and conflicts with some other libraries when compiling Apache so temporarily use -DCURL_USE_LIBPSL=OFF to ignore it until it supports MSVC and cmake or there is another build with less conflicts.
In addition to libpsl, two libraries, Zstandard (zstd) and libssh2, are also required when building cURL. These two libraries will not return an error when not found like libpsl (since it is not marked as REQUIRED in CMakeLists.txt) and these two libraries support building with cmake.
I tried compiling these two libraries and was successful in just 4 / 6 lines of command:
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** LibSSH2 Build **
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CD /D C:\httpd\srclib\libssh2-1.11.1
CMAKE -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=\Apache -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
NMAKE && NMAKE INSTALL
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** Zstandard Build **
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CD /D C:\httpd\srclib\zstd-1.5.7\build\cmake
CMAKE -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=\Apache -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
NMAKE && NMAKE INSTALL
... cURL build |
So you might consider adding them in the next release, before compiling cURL. |
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tanquang
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| Posted: Wed 26 Feb '25 13:15 Post subject: |
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There is a small note with your OpenSSL build code. OpenSSL uses the (case-sensitive) argument --release (default) or --debug for release/debug builds.
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| Code: | @echo off
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set OPENSSL_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--prefix=%PREFIX% --libdir=lib --openssldir=%PREFIX%\conf --with-zlib-include=%PREFIX%\include shared zlib-dynamic enable-camellia no-idea no-mdc2
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So if you don't specify an argument, it will always build a release build by default. |
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admin
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| Posted: Thu 27 Feb '25 10:32 Post subject: |
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| Yes, the policy at Apache Lounge is that we ship dependencies only with for HTTP needed, so no libpsl, python. icu. |
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tanquang
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| Posted: Fri 28 Feb '25 13:38 Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | | Yes, the policy at Apache Lounge is that we ship dependencies only with for HTTP needed, so no libpsl, python. icu. |
Yes, especially with python, I once made the mistake of installing python before compiling the dependencies and Apache and then had a headache trying to figure out how to fix dozens of errors that appeared afterwards. In the end the quickest solution was to uninstall python and everything was back to normal! |
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