Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:57:20 +0100
From: Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl>
Subject: Re: is there any cgi library for djgpp?
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, azuaje wrote:
> 
> > I need to write cgi programs in C or C++ (preferably in C).
> > I wonder if there is any cgi
> > library for djgpp.
> 
> Compiling CGI programs with DJGPP is not a good idea at all: most
> probably the resultant executable won't work.  The problem is that DJGPP
> produces DOS programs, which are run by Windows in a separate Virtual
> Machine.  Since the HTTP server, like any Windows program, runs in the
> System VM it needs to employ special tricks to redirect standard input
> and output from a DJGPP program.  Alas, most Windows servers don't
> bother to employ these tricks.

I disagree! I used Laszlo Molnars perl 552b port with the
Windows version of Apache to run CGI scripts. This simply works.
Apache does get the standard output of the perl script.
You *do* have to use a trick to get hold of the standard error.
Instead of

#!c:/djgpp/bin/perl

you must use something like

#!c:/djgpp/bin/redir -ea c:/logs/cgi_error.txt c:/djgpp/bin/perl.

Teun