how to build apache httpd 2.* and beyond on msys2

Question

httpd build on msys2 fails with the following error:

xml/apr_xml.c:35:19: fatal error: expat.h: No such file or directory

On real linux distros, installing the expat-devel package seems to solve the problem see here, more precisely, expat-devel is an apr-util prerequisite and at least its headers ar missing on msys2.

So how to build httpd with msys since no expat-devel package or headers is available ? When configuring httpd --with-included-apr, where do apr-utils look for expat headers or how to configure that ?

more precisely the CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.6 documentation says

Changes with APR-util 1.6.0

*) The expat dependency of apr-util is no longer built with apr-util. Install expat (including development headers and libraries) first before building apr-util.

where should expat headers and libs be installed in httpds build directory tree ?

user1767316 user1767316 · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-15T16:54:23

I finally had to build expat separately, then other errors arised and found a solution thanks to this link for missing libtool and to that link for the effective way to build expat without generating export redefinition.

let find the full build script here:

pacman -S make gcc libcrypt perl unzip libtool msys/libcrypt-devel

cd OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable
curl http://mirrors.standaloneinstaller.com/apache/httpd/httpd-2.4.38.tar.gz --output httpd-2.4.38.tar.gz
tar xvf  httpd-2.4.38.tar.gz

cd $HOME
git clone --branch OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git
mv openssl  OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable
cd OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable
./configure gcc --prefix=$HOME/openssl
make
make install

cd $HOME
wget https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_2_2_6/expat-2.2.6.tar.bz2
tar xjvf expat-2.2.6.tar.bz2
cd $HOME/expat-2.2.6
./configure --prefix=$HOME/httpd --exec-prefix=$HOME/httpd
make
make install

cd $HOME
curl http://mirrors.standaloneinstaller.com/apache//apr/apr-1.6.5.tar.gz --output apr-1.6.5.tar.gz
tar xvf apr-1.6.5.tar.gz
curl http://mirrors.standaloneinstaller.com/apache//apr/apr-util-1.6.1.tar.gz --output apr-util-1.6.1.tar.gz
tar xvf apr-util-1.6.1.tar.gz
cd $HOME/apr-1.6.5
./configure --prefix=$HOME/httpd
 make
 make install
cd $HOME/apr-util-1.6.1
 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/httpd --with-apr=$HOME/httpd --with-expat=$HOME/httpd 
 make
 make install

cd $HOME
wget https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-8.43.tar.gz
tar xvf pcre-8.43.tar.gz
cd pcre-8.43
./configure --prefix=$HOME/pcre
make 
make install

cd $HOME
wget https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/download/v1.37.0/nghttp2-1.37.0.tar.gz
tar xvf nghttp2-1.37.0.tar.gz
cd $HOME/nghttp2-1.37.0
./configure  --exec-prefix=$HOME/httpd --prefix=$HOME/httpd
make 
make install

cd $HOME/httpd-2.4.38
 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/httpd --with-expat==$HOME/httpd --with-apr-util=$HOME/httpd --with-apr=$HOME/httpd --with-pcre=$HOME/pcre --enable-ssl --enable-ssl-staticlib-deps --with-ssl=$HOME/openssl --enable-proxy --enable-proxy-connect --enable-proxy-http --enable-proxy-balancer --enable-http2 --enable-nghttp2-staticlib-deps --with-nghttp2=$HOME/nghttp2
make
make install

The build process completed successfully, but usefull to say that the runtime can't be used since httpd is not able to load its dynamic modules as described here

how to build apache httpd 2.* and beyond on msys2

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