[Mingw-users] porting apache2 and mod_jk2 to MinGW

[Mark E. <ev...@pa...>]

Lacking access to the MSVC compilers, I find myself emabarking on the path
to build apache2 and mod_jk2 binaries under win32 (Windows 2000).  Is my
understanding that by compiling with MinGW I should be able to produce
equivalent binaries to that produced by MSVC correct?  That is
multi-threaded, able to dynamically load apache modules, etc, modulo
compiler optimizations perhaps not present in GCC?

Teaching the apache2 autoconf system seems to be a task to be completed
after I have a working build, so I have started by converting the
"Developer Studio Workspace" (*.dsw) included in the
'httpd-2.0.47-win32-src.zip' distribution with the 'dsw2mak" gawk script
which seems to work ok, but there seem to be many little things to fix.  I
have started using a '-DMINGW' switch to the cpp to special case my code.
Is there a more standard macro symbol automatically set by the
MinGW-3.0.0rc4 toolchain that I should be using?

wine-20030709 has a version of 'crtdbg.h' which just defines all the malloc
related debugging to the non-debugging types.  Might be useful to include
in MinGW, although I am still not clear (I haven't taken enough time) on
what sort of licensing terms MinGW is striving for.  

Well, just wanted to put a feeler out if anyone could correct me that what
I am attempting will not be feasible.

MinGW looks real cool:  thanks for the hard work so far!


-- 
Mark Evenson <ev...@pa...>

"A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before, but there is
nothing to compare to it now."