Topic: Compiling Apache 2.4.3 - Win 32 - Windows XP SP3

[jigarakatidus]

Hi,

I am a student(Newbie). I am trying to learn building Apache. I have some queries.

I tried compiling myself but got stuck in the begining itself.

I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VC9), Microsft SDK v6.0A, httpd-2.4.3.tar.gz source. Copied apr, apr-util, apr-iconv, pcre source to srclib directory of apache. I guess its okay if I skip openssl and other dependencies.

I tried running "nmake /f Makefile.win" in command prompt it gave an error that "msdev could not be found", after little searching i found that msdev was in MVS 2003 later it became devenv so I replaced all msdev with devenv in whole folder of http source including srclib directory.

Then the same command throws an error saying i need to convert the project for 2008 VS. So I decided to open a workspace in IDE which asked me for the converstion. But It did not even load saying files were corrupt. I think I will have to convert all src files to dos structure. Is it true ? is their any software to convert all files at once ? Also is awk.exe compulsory if yes where should I place it ?

Please let me know if I am missing anything in between. Please check my requirements too. Sorry for being totally noob.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Jigar

[Steffen]

There are some posts here about building, for example http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=4469

Steffen

[jigarakatidus]

Hi,

Thanks that helped a lot.

But now I am stuck at the last command you provided before converting the project to 2008

i.e Building OpenSSL

[Steffen]

There are some posts here about windows.h, for example http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=3920

Steffen

[jigarakatidus]

Hi,

Thanks a lot. I was successfully able to compile Apache.

I think I don't have to write the steps as this forum already has perfect posts related to this.

Btw, after converting src files to VS 2008. If I want to compile apache from command line with PREFIX(INSTDIR) is the following command right ?

[glsmith]

Typically the tar.gz files (unix source) do not include a full set of make files for windows so you could not compile from command line.

If there were the .mak/.dep files that would be the command to type.

If you wanted to try it anyway, there's a full set of win32 sources here;
http://people.apache.org/~gsmith/httpd/releases/

no lineends.pl or cvtdsp.pl conversions needed for these to build from command line.

[jigarakatidus]

Thank you.