apxs of Apache on Windows

Install mingw Install ActiveState Perl

 http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/5.8.9.828/ActivePerl-5.8.9.828-MSWin32-x86-294165.msi

Reference of Apache

 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Apache/Building-Apache-the-Way-You-Want-It/12/

Install apxs according to the README

 perl Configure.pl --with-apache-prog=httpd.exe

win32 binary of apxs you will find here, thanks to Bill Rowe and Randy Kobes

 http://www.apachelounge.com/download/apxs_win32.zip

I am doing

 C:\Users\zdavatz\software\mod_ruby-1.3.0>apxs -c mod_ruby.c

that results in

C:/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe  /nologo /MD /W3 /O2 /D WIN32 /D _WINDOWS /D NDEBUG    -I"C:\Apache2.2\include"  /c /Fomod_ruby.lo mod_ruby.c
gcc.exe: /nologo: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /MD: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /W3: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /O2: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /D: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: WIN32: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /D: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: _WINDOWS: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /D: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: NDEBUG: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /c: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /Fomod_ruby.lo: No such file or directory
In file included from mod_ruby.c:33:0:
mod_ruby.h:33:18: fatal error: ruby.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536

Ok I am getting ruby.h from the Ruby source directory at

 C:\build\ruby\ruby-1.8.6-p369>

then running

 rake ruby18:dependencies devkit:sh

to enter bash and run

 ./configure 

so hopefully I will get

 config.h

as well. Ok, so the next files are

 cp \build\ruby\ruby-1.8.6-p369\defines.h defines.h

and

 xcopy \build\ruby\ruby-1.8.6-p369\win32\* win32 /s

pwd shows

 C:\Users\zdavatz\software\mod_ruby-1.3.0

more files to copy

 defines.h
 missing.h
 intern.h
 version.h
 rubyio.h
 util.h

New error is

C:/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe  /nologo /MD /W3 /O2 /D WIN32 /D _WINDOWS /D NDEBUG    -I"C:\Apache2.2\include"  /c /Fomod_ruby.lo mod_ruby.c
gcc.exe: /nologo: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /MD: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /W3: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /O2: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /D: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /D: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: _WINDOWS: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /D: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: NDEBUG: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /c: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /Fomod_ruby.lo: No such file or directory
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536

getting rid of some errors thanks to Dušan Majkić

 http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/msg/ef5244384c478192

Ok, creating a apxs sample file on windows

 C:\Users\zdavatz\software>apxs -g -n foo
 Creating [DIR]  foo
 Creating [FILE] foo/Makefile
 Creating [FILE] foo/mod_foo.c
 Creating [FILE] foo/.deps

and then trying to install it also does not work and results in the same error

 C:/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe  -Wall -O2 -D WIN32 -D _WINDOWS -D NDEBUG    -I"C:\Apache2.2\include"  /c /Fomod_foo.lo mod_foo.c
 gcc.exe: /c: No such file or directory
 gcc.exe: /Fomod_foo.lo: No such file or directory
 In file included from C:\Apache2.2\include/ap_config.h:25:0,
                 from C:\Apache2.2\include/httpd.h:43,
                 from mod_foo.c:40:
 C:\Apache2.2\include/apr.h:57:0: warning: ignoring #pragma warning
 apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536

This mod_ruby seems to work with Apache2.0.64, mod_ruby/1.2.4

 http://url.ba/k6h8

The discussion on Windows Ruby-Installer

 http://url.ba/ubwn