I've been trying to get a development WinNT machine running with mod_perl and Apache. I've been able to do this successfully two different ways: Indigo binaries and Cygwin out-of-the-box binaries. I also tried to build Apache and mod_perl from sourece under Cygwin; Apache compiled fine but I had problems with mod_perl.

On my linux production server, I want (I think) to use Apache::Cookie and Apache::LogFile in my application. If I do, I'd obviously need the same on the development box.

The problem is these modules use libapreq, which according to extensive google searching is hard (or impossible) to get running under Windows, or under Cygwin.

My question has three parts:

1. Did I miss something? That is, maybe I'm missing something obvious and this isn't hard and someone can point me to a link that gets these packages working for me under Windows.
2. Am I going down the wrong path altogether? That is, should I abandon my intent to use these two modules and use CGI::Cookie and some hand-rolled logging functionality instead? (The modperl developer's cookbook p.552 warns against rolling-your-own logfile routines, so that scared me off...)
3. If the Apache:: modules aren't the right approach, and I do use CGI:: and hand-rolled logging, what am I sacrificing? That is, what are the cons of CGI::Cookie vs. Apache::Cookie? And can anyone point me towards good code that mimics the functionality of Apache::Logfile?

Thanks for helping out.

Quite befuddled --

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