Installing under Cygwin?

[Octavian Râşniţă <or...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Does anyone know if mod_perl can be installed under Cygwin?

I have tried to install it with cpan, but it gave an error on the `make` 
step.

Thanks.

Octavian

Re: Installing under Cygwin?

[Octavian Râşniţă <or...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

From: "André Warnier" <aw...@ice-sa.com>
> Octavian Râşniţă wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know if mod_perl can be installed under Cygwin?
>>
>> I have tried to install it with cpan, but it gave an error on the `make` 
>> step.
>>
> I cannot answer your question directly, I don't know.
>
> But my question is : why would you want to do that ?
>
> One of the beauties of Perl, is that it runs on multiple platforms,
> Windows native being one of them.
> And so does Apache 2.x.
> And so does mod_perl, in combination of Apache 2.x for Windows, and
> ActivePerl from www.activestate.com.


I know that mod_perl can be installed with native Apache and Perl, but 
unfortunately Perl is fully portable only theoreticly if we take into 
consideration the CPAN modules :-(

I have an application made with Catalyst framework and I also want to 
include Movable Type blogs in it.

I have a few solutions, but none of them work well:

1. I can use the native ActivePerl and Apache and use Movable Type as simple 
CGI scripts that don't have any relation with the rest of the application.
This solution works, but it is not nice to have 2 totally separate apps, and 
the CGI scripts will run slow.
(In addition, because there are CGI scripts involved, they have a shebang 
line like #!/usr/bin/perl, and the problem is that I do the development 
under Windows, but run the program in production under Linux, so I need to 
have different shebang lines but I found a workaround for this).

2. I can use the module Catalyst::Controller::CGIBin to map the CGI scripts 
to a Catalyst controller, but unfortunately it uses the module 
Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI and this module crashes Perl when I try to 
install it under ActivePerl 5.10.0 and 5.10.1.

3. I can run the app under cygwin. I have tested and 
Catalyst::Controller::CGIBin can be installed with no problems. I have even 
succeeded to install MySQL and DBD::mysql under cygwin and start Apache, 
but... mod_perl can't be installed.

I don't know yet if the solution that uses Catalyst::Controller::CGIBin 
really works, but I can't even test it, because under ActivePerl it crashes 
Perl just when I try to install it.

Octavian

Re: Installing under Cygwin?

[André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>]

Sorry, I hit the send button too quickly.
I meant to send this to the list, not to you personally.

Octavian Râşniţă wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if mod_perl can be installed under Cygwin?
> 
> I have tried to install it with cpan, but it gave an error on the `make` 
> step.
> 
I cannot answer your question directly, I don't know.

But my question is : why would you want to do that ?

One of the beauties of Perl, is that it runs on multiple platforms,
Windows native being one of them.
And so does Apache 2.x.
And so does mod_perl, in combination of Apache 2.x for Windows, and
ActivePerl from www.activestate.com.

And unless your scripts or mod_perl handlers really need to do something
that is OS-specific, they should not need to be changed to run under the
above combination.

There are good instructions of how to install this on the mod_perl site.
If you have any problem, get back here and someone will help.