Let's start a new thread with the bits of information I posted about building on Windows in the "Release Notes: TODO regarding Py3 support" thread [1].
Building SVN on Windows is pretty hard, especially the dependencies. A lot of the dependencies have (Windows-specific) problems or quirks in their build scripts. Useful documents / tools in our own source tree (but they are a but rusty / out-of-date): - INSTALL: definitely needs a refresh / update. - tools/dev/windows-build: contains a Makefile that can be useful on Windows, if you don't want to build from within the VS IDE (and as a config "wrapper" around gen-make.py). - tools/dev/build-svn-deps-win.pl: needs resurrection, i.e. update and cleanup of old vs updated components. It contains a couple of scripted fixes for some of the externally broken build scripts (e.g. httpd). Perhaps those fixes should be brought upstream (at least they should be checked against the latest version of their component). Perhaps could use Debug vs. Release configuration, as well as x86 vs. x64. Cross pointing between this script and INSTALL would be ideal. My personal notes for building SVN's dependencies (trying to build an x86 Release build): - Get the following tools, and make sure they are in your PATH: * Perl (I've taken the last Strawberry distribution from perl.org) * Python from python.org (download both a 2.7 and a 3.x build, you'll probably need both, as there are still problems with 3.x for svn builds). * awk (from https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk95.exe) * test.exe, from GnuWin32 (used by that Makefile from tools/dev/windows-build) zlib: # clean: nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc clean nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc test (workaround for svn build: it looks for zlibstat.lib) nmake /nologo -f win32/Makefile.msc STATICLIB=zlibstat.lib all building DEBUG configuration: set CC_OPTS=/MDd /Gm /ZI /Od /GZ /D_DEBUG nmake /nologo -f win32/Makefile.msc STATICLIB=zlibstatD.lib all Do not try to build the assembler optimized versions, it causes headaches openssl: Need Netwide Assembler, a.k.a. NASM, available from https://www.nasm.us (after install, put in PATH) perl Configure enable-zlib --with-zlib-include=../zlib-1.2.11 --with-zlib-lib=../zlib-1.2.11/zlib.lib VC-WIN32 For openssl 1.0.2*: call ms\do_nasm nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak test For openssl 1.1.x: nmake nmake test PCRE (from pcre.org, needed for httpd -- not pcre2, only pcre (version 1) works): cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=RelWithDebInfo -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON -DPCRE_NO_RECURSE:BOOL=ON . nmake nmake test expat (needed for httpd / apr-util): download and extract expat (https://libexpat.github.io/) (Follow instructions from cmake.README): cd expat mkdir build cd build cmake .. msbuild expat.sln (debug build) msbuild expat.sln /p:Configuration=Release >>>> This is 64-bit build!! httpd now also needs to be built 64bit >>>> or: open expat.sln > Configuration Mgr > Add x86 (win32) configuration, save & exit + edit all vcprojx files and remove " /machine:x64" httpd: download and extract httpd download and extract apr, apr-util, apr-iconv into httpd\srclib\apr ..\apr-util ..\apr-iconv Attention: Do not try to use junctions (windows symlinks), just copy the directories. Attention 2: Check if the downloaded / extracted files are marked by Windows as "Blocked" (rightclick -> Properties). If so unblock them in bulk from within Powershell (Run as Administrator), with "dir -s | Unblock-File". put built pcre under httpd\srclib put built openssl under httpd\srclib (and name it 'openssl') put built zlib under httpd\srclib (and name it 'zlib') The directories below srclib should be: apr apr-iconv apr-util openssl pcre zlib put built expat under httpd\srclib\apr-util\xml copy libexpat.lib into srclib/apr-util copy libexpat.lib from Release and libexpatD.pdb from Debug into expat\lib\LibR, and name them xml.lib and xml.pdb (for debug build) copy libexpatd.lib and libexpatD.pdb from Debug into expat\lib\LibD, and name them xml.lib and xml.pdb edit apr-util\Makefile.win, and unquote libexpat in XML_PARSER="libexpat" see https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@apr.apache.org/msg27347.html perl srclib\apr\build\lineends.pl perl srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -2005 (for openssl 1.1.x) perl srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -ossl11 Open Apache.dsw in VS2019 to let it be converted / upgrade to .sln with .vcxproj files (made from de .dsp files) Strip "/Yuiconv" en "Yciconv" out of srclib/apr-iconv/build/modules.mk.win (not sure if this is still needed) Insert "<PropertyGroup><GenerateManifest>false</GenerateManifest></PropertyGroup>" in support/win32/ApacheMonitor.vcxproj Insert "<PropertyGroup><TargetName>libapr-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in srclib/apr/libapr.vcxproj Insert "<PropertyGroup><TargetName>apr_ldap-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in srclib/aprutil/ldap/apr_ldap.vcxproj Insert "<PropertyGroup><TargetName>libapriconv-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in srclib/apr-iconv/libapriconv.vcxproj Insert "<PropertyGroup><TargetName>libaprutil-1</TargetName></PropertyGroup>" in srclib/aprutil/libaprutil.vcxproj Create directory C:\Apache2.4.43 in which the httpd build can be installed. # Add XML_PARSER="libexpat" to nmake commando ( https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@apr.apache.org/msg27346.html) nmake /f Makefile.win installr INSTDIR=C:\Apache2.4.43 XML_PARSER="libexpat" # If anything fails, first try it again: nmake /f Makefile.win installr INSTDIR=C:\Apache2.4.43 XML_PARSER="libexpat" Possibly: Rerun _install like this: nmake /f Makefile.win SHORT=R LONG=Release _install INSTDIR=C:\Apache2.4.43 XML_PARSER="libexpat" Possibly: copy apr-util\xml\expat\Release\expat.dll to C:\Apache2.4.43\bin serf (the problems here below were just reported to dev@serf.a.o [2]): Download and install latest scons version, in your Python 2.7 installation (so first make sure Python 2.7 is first in PATH, then run the installation of scons). The serf build does not work with Python 3.x. If using openssl 1.1.x, patch serf/SConstruct as follows: [[[ --- SConstruct.orig 2020-04-19 15:36:16.257450600 +0200 +++ SConstruct 2020-04-19 15:36:51.855740800 +0200 @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ LIBPATH=['$ZLIB']) # openssl - env.Append(LIBS=['libeay32.lib', 'ssleay32.lib']) + env.Append(LIBS=['libcrypto.lib', 'libssl.lib']) if not env.get('SOURCE_LAYOUT', None): env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/include/openssl'], LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL/lib']) @@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/inc32'], LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL/out32']) else: - env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/inc32'], - LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL/out32dll']) + env.Append(CPPPATH=['$OPENSSL/include'], + LIBPATH=['$OPENSSL']) else: if os.path.isdir(apr): apr = os.path.join(apr, 'bin', 'apr-1-config') ]]] With Python 2.7 in PATH, run: scons APR=..\httpd-2.4.43\srclib\apr APU=..\httpd-2.4.43\srclib\apr-util OPENSSL=..\openssl-1.1.1f ZLIB=..\zlib-1.2.11 If you get this error: scons: *** Invalid value for option MSVC_VERSION: 14.2. Valid values are: ('14.0', '12.0', '11.0', '10.0', '9.0', '8.0', '6.0') File "C:\research\svn\dev\deps\serf-1.3.9\SConstruct", line 157, in <module> Delete the file .saved_config, and try again. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4c630849db5bc24c0e8dbde5ef5d03f6256727d6058a9a70862335b7%40%3Cdev.subversion.apache.org%3E [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r30cbdeea2c65f77af338fa2515e25ca971cdd511f83bf06672e4e6ed%40%3Cdev.serf.apache.org%3E -- Johan
