[Catalyst] Catalyst on Windows: fork issues

[Andy Grundman]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Stefan Washietl wrote:

> 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?

Can't do it, fork == threads on Win32 which == death for a lot of  
modules.  I don't have any advice on using lighttpd or FCGI under  
Windows, but apparently it is possible to run FCGI under IIS.