On 09.07.2010 22:16 Michael Ludwig wrote: > Relevant or not, this story makes me ask the following questions: > Are there any people on this list using mod_perl 2.0 on Windows? > Do you have any positive or negative experiences to share?
I use it for a web based application but have/had some problems. First it was very difficult to get a tool chain that works well with each other: Apache, Perl, mod_perl, several binary modules from different sources, some from PPM repositories, some self-compiled because I couldn't find a (recent) precompiled version. After some "DLL hell" (or whatever incompatibilities) I got a version that worked quite well by compiling everything myself (except very few modules where I was not able to do so) with the old MS VC6 compiler (with some updates and addons from MS). As I said this worked quite well with one exception: I got memory problems. I had to restart Apache after some time to reclaim the memory. This is the reason why I am in the process to migrate the whole thing to Linux (prefork MPM). But even then I plan to do development on a Windows box where I still feel more comfortable. For this the newly announced tool chain with Strawberry perl might be an option. Are there other recommendations how to get a well behaving, stable, extensible (also with XS modules) and modern mod_perl installation for Windows? -Michael
