Topic: install(apxs)error no libhttpd library found \httpd/lib

[jondspen]

Installing apxs for win 32 on a Server 2008 machine. Using ActivePerl and MinGS. Run the following command:

perl configure.pl --with-apache-prog=httpd.exe

I then get the setup gcc environment message and put in my path to apache

c:\program files (x86)\collabnet subversion server\httpd

I am then prompted for my Apache program name (httpd.exe)

I then get the error:
"No libhttpd library found under c:\program files (x86)\collabnet subversion server\httpd/lib at util.pl line 27, <STDIN> line2.

It looks like the util.pl script is trying to put in a forward slash (linux pathing convention) when it should be using a backslash. I tried to modify the script, but don't know PERL at all and everything I have changed does not seem to work. Perhaps its me, b/c it doesn't seem intuitive a win32 install package would be using linux convention for anything...but stranger things have happened.

Any suggestions, help, or insights to what I am doing wrong here? Thanks!

[afaxwebgirl]

Hi Jondspen,

We got the same error. Were you ever able to find a resolution to this issue?

[glsmith]

Like Apache, perl uses *nix path conventions so try feeding it
c:/program files (x86)/collabnet subversion server/httpd

if not, when modifying the script you would need to replace
unless -e qq{$apache/lib/libhttpd.lib};
with
unless -e qq{$apache\\lib\\libhttpd.lib}; # note the double \\

and likewise for the others that are similar

[Calorus]

I'm struggling with this, too.

Config.pl is looking for files end with '.lib' in a folder called lib.

I've tried using the prog name switch, however it still looks for files in the lib library.

Has anyone had these issues? Are there any tricks I can try?

Many thanks!

[glsmith]

Well, let's say Apache 2.2 is installed at C:\Apache22 for ease.
Here then is the full folder tree;

C:\Apache22
_____\-bin <- libapr-1.dll libapriconv-1.dll libaprutil-1.dll libhttpd.dll among others
_____\-cgi-bin
_____\-conf
_____\-error
_____\-htdocs
_____\-icons
_____\-include <- lots of .h header files
_____\-lib <- libapr-1.lib libapriconv-1.lib libaprutil-1.lib libhttpd.lib among others
_____\-logs
_____\-manual
_____\-modules

If you do not have lib & include, you will not be able to build modules. Anyhow, this is what apxs is looking for.

[Calorus]

Ah-ha...

Right this is pretty much what I'd expected to be missing...

However, do you happen to know where I might find those folders to install manually? Or if there is an Apache installation I should have used or some parameters I should have set on installation?

Many thanks!

[glsmith]

The one on the download page here, or at www.apachehaus.com ... or the official one at httpd.apache.org

[Amit]

[zdavatz]

I am facing the same issue here on Windows Vista, with apache and apxs_win32

http://www.apachelounge.com/download/apxs_win32.zip

sh-3.1$ /c/Perl/bin/perl.exe Configure.pl
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
No libhttpd library found under C:\Apache2.2\/lib at util.pl line 27.

Best
Zeno