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Asked: 2026-05-11T09:07:28+00:00

I tried compile apache 2.2, my Visual Studio 2008 returned error on RC. After

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I tried compile apache 2.2, my Visual Studio 2008 returned error on RC. After some googling, I found this explanation:

What appears to have happened is that you’ve opened it up unsuccessfully in Visual Studio; before you convert to an .sln file + .vcproj files, it’s important to invoke the perl script

perl srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -2005

which will do evil things to the .dsp file syntax, breaking them forever but allowing us to work around a visual studio bug. Then, load the Apache.dsw into a modern visual studio; it should ‘just work’.

Can anyone explain to me how to invoke Perl script on Windows?

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  1. The two distributions of Perl for Windows that you could get are

    • Strawberry Perl (A new distribution that integrates a C compiler to have the CPAN archive fully working on Windows)
    • ActivePerl (The most common distribution but the CPAN doesn’t work)

    Just install one of them as this script doesn’t seem to use any thing fancy.

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