[Cppcms-users] feedback after testing cppcms svn trunk compiled with msvc2005

[Cristian O. <one...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm currently testing cppcms from svn trunk compiled with msvc2005 (I
know that the wiki states that only MSVC9 and MSVC10 are supported but
MSVC8 works just as fine).
As a first impression I would like to say that the lib looks really
good. I intend to use it in combination with apache+mod_fastcgi.
After a few days of working with it I found the following issues and I
want to share them with you:
1. The application does not handle shutdown requests sent by
mod_fastcgi; a simple solution would be to add the mechanism used in
libfcgi (the fastcgi client implementation provided by
www.fastcgi.com) see the attached
apache_mod_fastcgi_nice_shutdown.patch - nothe that the implementation
could be improved to use a cppcms thread instead of _beginthread.
2. When trying the hello/form example I was getting an infinite loop
in the application due to the fact that an input stream was tested
only for eof and not for validity see
http_request_infinite_loop.patch.
These two where critical issues that I would like to see solved
somehow in cppcms. The following two patches are just insignificant
improvements:
3. Enable using external boost lib while running cmake configure and
add an extra name for the zlib library on Windows
cmake_permit_using_external_boost_and_zlib_on_win_name.patch
4. This fixes the only code incompatibility I have found on msvc2005
(mscv_2005_compatibility.patch) but googleing revealed that this can
be fixed using a never winsdk so this is only important if upgrading
is not an option
This is all for now.

Regards,
Cristian Oneț