Considerations for building dynamic modules on Windows platforms

There are restrictions that you must consider when building dynamic modules for Windows platforms.

Note: IBM HTTP Server is provided exclusively as a 32-bit application on the Windows platform, and is therefore only able to load 32-bit Apache HTTP Server modules and libraries.

There are restrictions that you must consider when building dynamic modules for Windows platforms.

The following restrictions apply when building a module to run with IBM HTTP Server:

  • Link your dynamic module to the libraries that are contained in lib directory where the server is installed.

  • The Apache HTTP Server module API is defined by the header files that are contained in the include directory where the server is installed. Your module should include any of these header files as needed.

  • You must not modify any file or data structure that is contained in any file in the include directory where the server is installed.


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