[Mono-devel-list] mod_mono on windows - almost there

[Francisco T. Martinez]

Angel Marin wrote:

>Hi,
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>>On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:09 +0100, Angel Marin wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I've been working on a native win32 build of mod_mono (for apache
>>>2.0.52). Initially it's been easy, apr_ize a couple of 
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>>things, ifdefs
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>>>for other few and it compiled. :)
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>>Yuju! Finally someone is doing this!
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>I have started several times, but I have never had the time to finish :)
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>>>So ... May be there are strange interactions between cygwin 
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>>sockets and
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>>>win32 native ones, or there may be some bug in mono, or in 
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>>aprlib, or I
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>>>need to work more on mod_mono code ...
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>>Is that using current CVS or 1.0.4? If not, you might be hitting at
>>least 2 bugs that only happen on windows and are already fixed.
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>Ups. forgot to mention that. 1.0.4, I don't have a cygwin installation
>working so testing CVS is hard.
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>Regards,
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Angel:

I also stopped at the section in the code that relates to "Fork". I 
noticed that Apche's runtime has it's own mechanisms to spawn 
executables.  I am such a newbie when it comes to APR but pretty 
comfortable using Win32 SDK.  At first, my first impulse was to us a 
CreateProcess to launch mod-mono-server but then thought that it would 
be just as unportable than using Fork in Win32 for the *NIX systems.

I don't think that this is necessarily a terrible thing, but if one does 
want to keep a common code base as much as possible then APR functions 
may be the way to go.

I am engage in an effort to both deliver a Win32 installer for Mono 
1.1.x and to create a simplified and repeatable process for building 
that code base with Cygwin.  It is proving very difficult but I am 
making progress.  Once I have completed this release I am working on, I 
should be able to work alongside you to resolve the mod_mono on Win32 
objective.

Good job angel.

Paco
PS
Gonzalo is the man!