Mark A. Craig wrote: > I've been making futile efforts to compile a module, mod_httpbl.c, and > not having any luck. I found and installed (or at least think I have) > the contents of apxs_win32.zip, with which William/Bill Rowe seems to > have had some involvement. Thanks on that are to Randy Kobes :) > However, when I try to follow the > recommended instructions for compiling this module, it fails with > various errors. Along the way I discovered that apxs.bat used a > long-filename reference to perl.exe, but it wasn't properly quoted and > it was failing to find perl.exe, so I had to actually edit apxs.bat and > change the reference to 8.3 format. > > The command I'm instructed to use to compile it is: > > apxs -c -i -a mod_httpbl.c > > When I try this from a Command window in \bin\ and the .c file in that > same directory, I get the following response: > > cl /nologo /MD /W3 /O2 /D WIN32 /D _WINDOWS /D NDEBUG > -I"C:\PROGRA~1\APACHE~1\Apache2.2\include" /c /Fomod_httpbl.lo > mod_httpbl.c > > 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. > apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536 > > Is it going to be practical to compile this module? I may be in far > over my head. If you don't have a VC compiler, and you don't run the vcvars32.bat file first, it's not going to find a cl.exe to run. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx