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Asked: 2026-05-15T11:33:49+00:00

I am writing an Apache module for my internship. I am using C for

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I am writing an Apache module for my internship. I am using C for this (I am not acquainted with Perl or Python that much).

I need to use an HTML Parser to solve the problem for which I am writing this module. I am considering libxml2 for this purpose.

I am confused how should I link the library in my module ? Should I link the library while compiling the module OR Should I use the LoadFile directive in the configuration file to load the library.

My main concern is that while I am developing this on Ubuntu, but I don’t know what will be the OS running on the deployment server. So I want its deployment, complications free and successful.

EDIT: @Grim: thanks for replying 🙂

I compiled the module with the following commands:

apxs -I /usr/include/libxml2/ -c mod_xmltest.c

sudo apxs -n xmltest_module -i mod_xmltest.la

I believe this does not link the libraries in the module, I was getting “Unresolved Symbols” error when starting the server, so I used the LoadFile directive to load libxml2 library. It seems to work.

Do you think there can be any issues this way? I think this makes my module more portable, as on the deployment server the admin can explicitly specify the location of the libxml2 library.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should link the library while compiling your module.

    There are of course the usual portability issues (at least then it comes to a non-posix OS). In this case some of them are solved by apxc. It’s impossible to say which complications that might occur, but nothing of what you describe should cause any.

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