Forum OpenACS Development: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows

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6: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows (response to 5)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/21/17 02:17 PM
when configuring tcl lib thread, one has to specify "--with-naviserver", otherwise it would be built as a "module" as required by NaviServer and AOLserver. If it is not built as a module, it is not loadable.

see e.g. https://github.com/gustafn/install-ns/blob/master/install-ns.sh#L517

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7: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows (response to 6)
Posted by Maurizio Martignano on 06/21/17 05:06 PM
Dear Frank and Gustav, when this morning I answered to Frank's post (and a similar email he sent me) I was either too concentrated on the workshop I'm having these days or still sleeping.

Let's try to fix that:

@ Frank:
the TCL Thread library you are trying to load with this command:
ns_param libthread $bindir/nsthread.dll
is wrong. That is not the library you want. This is a *.dll linked by default to Naviserver
(try ro rename nsthread.dll into something else and you'll see nsd.exe won't start any longer).

The library you want, in my distribution, is:
naviserver/lib/thread2.8.0/thread28.dll

@Frank and Gustaf
This TCL Thread library has not been built the way Gustaf mentioned, so it is not immediately loadable in Naviserver.
But, if the *.dll file is properly positioned it can be "activated" when needed with the instruction
"package require Thread"
Try for instance from within DS:

"
package require Thread
set tid [::thread::id]
"
Am I still sleeping?
Probably yes.

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8: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows (response to 7)
Posted by Maurizio Martignano on 06/21/17 07:02 PM
Just an additional comment on my post.
As soon as possible I am going to release a new version of my distribution
where Thread 2.8.0 DLL is compiled with NS_AOLSERVER flag defined, that is equivalent to the configure option --with-naviserver

Hope it helps,
Maurizio

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9: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows (response to 8)
Posted by Maurizio Martignano on 06/21/17 11:11 PM
I'm currently uploading version 3.3.0 of Windows-OpenACS.

This version fixes the problem of Thread 2.8.0 which now is a loadable module and some of the problems that were observed in the Nsssl module.

Hope it helps,
Maurizio

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10: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows (response to 9)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/22/17 12:13 AM
good news.

the --with-naviserver flag of configure declares NS_INCLUDES, NS_LIBS and defines NS_AOLSERVER. Don't load the library with "package require Thread", unless you are are asking for troubles (with the flag the registered commands are named ns_* to replace the original NaviServer/AOLserver commands).

Just curious: who observed what problems with the nsssl module?

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11: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows (response to 10)
Posted by Maurizio Martignano on 06/22/17 03:35 PM
Hello Gustaf, this has nothing to do with Naviserver.

I did compile OpenSSL and the Nsssl module with different compilation switches.

This prevented Nsssl from being able to properly call/use OpenSSL.
Now the problem is fixed.

Thank you,
Maurizio

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12: Re: XoTCL Request Monitor on Windows (response to 11)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/23/17 11:20 PM
ok. glad, it works.