On 2024/07/17 15:33:02 Mark Thomas wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've spent some time today trying to build Tomcat Native with Visual 
> Studio 2022 rather then the current, more involved process without success.
> 
> Therefore, my short-term plan for Tomcat Native is to get the next 2.0.x 
> and 1.3.x releases completed using the existing build process. I'll be 
> starting that shortly.
> 
> Longer term, thinking about Tomcat Native and FFM I have the following 
> rough plan in mind:
> 
> - stop providing x86 binaries for Windows
> - require Windows 10 onwards
> - provide:
>    - libssl.dll
>    - libcrypto.dll
>    - tomcat-native-2.dll
>    - openssl.exe
> 
> along with appropriate debug symbols.

This sounds reasonable...but did you rename tcnative on purpose?

> I'm not sure if we'd need an apr.dll in there as well.
> 
> The idea is that users can then use either the AprLifecycleListener or 
> OpenSSLLifecycleListener.
> 
> This would probably require moving Tomcat Native to 2.1.x and 1.4.x
> 
> This really needs someone more familiar with building C libraries 
> generally and these libraries in particular - i.e. Mladen - to say 
> whether the above is possible and to provide some pointers on how to do it.

I would prefer that all APR-related stuff in the build is also removed in 
2.1.x. Why does one need it if it is not used? That is weird.

Michael

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