[mapserver-users] compiling error core.c in mapcache with cygwin

[Andy Colson]

On 01/03/2015 08:08 AM, Gery . wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When installing mapcache in cygwin, `make` produced:
>
>      /opt/mapcache/mapcache-rel-1-2-1/lib/core.c: In function ‘mapcache_prefetch_tiles’:
>      /opt/mapcache/mapcache-rel-1-2-1/lib/core.c:81:3: error: unknown type name ‘apr_thread_t’
>         apr_thread_t **threads;
>         ^
>      /opt/mapcache/mapcache-rel-1-2-1/lib/core.c:82:3: error: unknown type name ‘apr_threadattr_t’
>         apr_threadattr_t *thread_attrs;
>         ^
>      /opt/mapcache/mapcache-rel-1-2-1/lib/core.c:83:7: warning: unused variable ‘nthreads’ [-Wunused-variable]
>         int nthreads;
>             ^
>      /opt/mapcache/mapcache-rel-1-2-1/lib/core.c:82:21: warning: unused variable ‘thread_attrs’ [-Wunused-variable]
>         apr_threadattr_t *thread_attrs;
>                           ^
>      /opt/mapcache/mapcache-rel-1-2-1/lib/core.c:81:18: warning: unused variable ‘threads’ [-Wunused-variable]
>         apr_thread_t **threads;
>                        ^
>
> I searched for some hints about this error but didn't find anything. Looking for `apr_thread_t` and cygwin, I found some pages pointing to an error with apache, but not really sure if apache has something to do here.
>
> thanks for any hints on this,
>
> Gery

You need the Apache Portable Runtime library.  Its a generic lib, not the webserver.

This gives an overview of all the area's it covers:

http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/1.4/modules.html



-Andy