Comments on: rTorrent and wTorrent on OSX

By: Haruspex

Haruspex — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:40:56 +0000

sudo apxs -Wc,”-arch ppc7400 -arch x86_64 -arch i386″ -Wl,”-arch ppc7400 -arch x86_64 -arch i386″ -i -a -c -o mod_scgi.so *.c

worked for me, just make sure the quote marks are actually quote marks

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:07:26 +0000

on snow, to make the universal binary, I used the following command in the apache2 directory of mod_scgi-1.14

apxs -Wc,”-arch ppc7400 -arch x86_64 -arch i386″ -Wl,”-arch ppc7400 -arch x86_64 -arch i386″ -i -a -c -o mod_scgi.so *.c

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:29:13 +0000

So, I gave in and trimmed the fat apache binary. I’m trying to get wTorrent/rTorrent running on a Power Mac G5 with 10.5.8, though, so rather than making a new i386 binary, I made a ppc binary. So far, so good. This worked:

sudo lipo ./httpd.fat -thin ppc7400 -output ./httpd.ppc7400
sudo ln -s ./httpd.ppc7400 ./httpd

Oddly enough, my binary only has two architectures:

$ file httpd-1.3
httpd-1.3: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
httpd-1.3 (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386
httpd-1.3 (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc

So, I couldn’t have tried 32-bit PowerPC, even if I wanted to.

Unfortunately, when starting apache with the mod_scgi module enabled, I get this error:

httpd: Syntax error on line 172 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Can’t locate API module structure `mod_scgi’ in file /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_scgi.so: dlsym(0×111210, mod_scgi): symbol not found

Any idea at all? I can’t find anything for this error on Google. Line 172 of httpd.conf just enables/disables mod_scgi, nothing more. Heck, Server Admin created that line, not me.

Besides this, I guess the only thing left I can try to get wTorrent working is to install lighttpd, but that seems like a tremendous task to me. Help?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:54:49 +0000

Thanks for getting me this far, but I’m utterly confused. I’ve managed to install rTorrent on Mac OS X Server 10.5.8. I can’t seem to find its configuration file, but I haven’t done much digging there.

My bigger problem, though, is installing SCGI. It sounds like the wTorrent page you link to once contained SCGI installation instructions, but doesn’t anymore.

I’d prefer to use Don’s instructions from the comments, but I can’t get them to work. Would you still recommend trimming the fat apache binary? I’m concerned the Mac OS X installer might break this in the future.

I’d really really appreciate it if you could expand on installing SCGI. That seems to be my stumbling point – I’m not a complete newbie with the command line, but compiling is still pretty foreign to me.

Thank you for an otherwise great tutorial! I’m really excited to get this working.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:56:11 +0000

I haven’t been able to upgrade my server to snow leopard yet, but I’ll update the guide as soon as I do. I’m curious to see how the new 64 bit kernel effects the binaries, like apache, to see whether they still need to be lipo’d.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:11:59 +0000

updated guide for Snow Leopard?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:14:26 +0000

Thanks for the make file don, that really helps to preserve the setup even with future (most likely) universal updates to apache from Apple. For any others looking to head down that path if you want to further automate the make process you can add the “-a” flag after “-i” in the install_universal make command and apxs will automatically add LoadModule entries to your httpd.conf.

By: don rikter

don rikter — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:49:47 +0000

sorry for the double post but i found the 1.13 release which compiles from here:
http://python.ca/scgi/
also I found a modified Makefile to use rather than lipo’ing the fat binary:
http://osdir.com/ml/python.qp/2008-07/msg00000.html

APXS=apxs

# Extra args for building a multi-architecture version OS X 10.5.
UNIVERSAL=”-arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64″

all:
$(APXS) -c mod_scgi.c

install:
$(APXS) -i -c mod_scgi.c

universal:
$(APXS) -c -Wl,$(UNIVERSAL) -Wc,$(UNIVERSAL) mod_scgi.c

install_universal:
$(APXS) -i -c -Wl,$(UNIVERSAL) -Wc,$(UNIVERSAL) mod_scgi.c

clean:
rm -rf mod_scgi.o mod_scgi.lo mod_scgi.slo mod_scgi.la .libs

By: don rikter

don rikter — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:25:53 +0000

I’ve managed to get rtorrent installed with macports along with xmlrpc-c, but mod_scgi is failing on my 10.5.5. I got the source from here: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/files/mod_scgi/scgi-1.9.tar.gz

since I couldn’t find a macport.

but my vanilla 10.5.5 has a mod_scgi_pubsub.so is mod_scgi already installed and/or is there a package already modified to compile on 10.5.5?

Thanks,
Don

By: Casual Norb

Casual Norb — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:47:14 +0000

If you did a search/replace of DIR_DOWNLOAD with “/” in wtorrent/cls/rtorrent.cls.php, would that result in a combination of no errors, correct disk space reporting, and not having to type out the data location manually whenever you add a torrent?

I’d test it, but I’m not running it on a Mac :p