[Catalyst] Catalyst on Windows: fork issues

[Stefan Washietl]

I'm using Catalyst for building an application that can be run as 
web-application and as desktop application under linux/OSX and Windows.

I'm using  Strawberry Perl for Windows and in principle everthing works 
fine. I can run a basic application without problems. However, I need a 
way to have several asyncronous processes. Under Linux that is no 
problem at all, I can use --fork with HTTP::Engine, or I can use 
HTTP::Engine::Prefork, or I use fastcgi together with some webserver 
like lighttpd.

However, none of the above options works under Windows. If I use --fork 
with HTTP::Engine or HTTP::Engine::Prefork the strawberry Perl 
executable crashes completely without any useful error message.

I tried to run it as fastcgi but the FCGI::ProcManager which is needed 
does not work under Windows either. I also tried to find a lighttpd 
config to run my app as a "static-mode" fastcgi which works nicely under 
Linux but gives only obscure error messages in Windows.

Has anybody run a catalyst application under Windows with fork 
functionality or can give advice on a fastcgi configuration with 
lighttpd or any other lightweight server?

Thanks,
Stefan