All excellent news. Thank you.
One small thought. Commons Daemon has switched to using the static
hybrid CRT approach by default. Do we want to switch Native and mod_jk
to a similar approach?
Mark
On 25/06/2026 09:25, Rainer Jung wrote:
First: sorry for the flood of commits, I hope it gets quieter now.
Current status:
- pcre2 added as the new regexp default library to the isapi redirector
- pcre still available as a fallback option by adding "PCRE=pcre" to the
nmake commandline. Plan is to document pcre as getting removed after the
next release.
- pcre2 addition is "clean" in the sense, that it adds all pcre2 files
as-is plus a relative simple nmake makefile plus a config.h that should
be stable and describes which build options for pcre2 are chosen. Still
releasing Tomcat connectors also means checking pcre2 for updates. Maybe
something to add to the release script.
- nmake makefiles for pcre, pcre2, isapi redirector and mod_jk for
Windows mostly harmonized. All of them use a common included nmake
makefile for basic settings. All of them should also be close to what
tomcat-native uses.
- target Windows version is now WIN10, which does not only mean Windows
10, but also 11 and Windows Server 2016 and above. Windows 7, 8 and 8.1
builds should still be possible for people who need it, but 10 is the
default.
- default CPU architecture taken from build system. We might reconsider
providing X86 builds by the project. I think they are mostly obsolete now.
- tested with Visual Studio 2026, should also still work with Visual
Studio 2022. My previous comment about VS 2026 no longer being able to
compile for WIN7 was wrong. Instead VS 2026 latest patch level is no
longer compatible with my build platform Windows Server 2016. One need
to use the optional build tools version 14.50 instead of the default
version 14.51... No problem on more modern build systems.
- isapi and mod_jk on Windows builds now support Hybrid CRT using the
same STATIC_CRT=Hybrid flag for nmake. Using that, there is no versioned
msvcrt dependency in the generated DLL / SO. So Mladen's CSMC is no
longer needed or used.
- I added github actions (much of it copied or greatly inspired from the
tomcat-native ones) for:
- building mod_jk on Linux (CodeQL)
- building mod_jk on Windows using ApacheLounge httpd to build against
- building isapi redirector, 4 variants
- WIN10, pcre2
- WIN10, pcre
- WIN7, pcre2
- WIN7, pcre
The resulting modules/plugins from the build actions are not tested. I
am thinking about adding that, but it would also mean addition and
simple configuration of a downloaded Tomcat to test AJP against.
Best regards,
Rainer
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