How to install apxs on xampp

Question

I have a site I'm running off an Apache server, and I want to run a python script using the server and the web browser. I'm using xampp, and I have researched that I have to use modwsgi, and I have downloaded the zip and unpacked it onto my desktop. Now using command prompt I run

setup.py install

The first time I did this, I didn't have setup tools installed for python (I have python 2.7.8 and I'm on Windows 7 64 bit), so I went ahead and downloaded that, but now when I run the command again I get the following message

RuntimeError: The 'apxs' command appears to not to be installed or is not exectuable.
Please check the list of prerequistes in the documentation for the package and install 
any missing Apache httpd server packages.

How exactly do I install apxs because I don't have Apache but xampp?

Answer 1

I was installing apxs on XAMPP in Windows. I wrote a blog post with the complete solution (in Spanish). I basically compiled my own version of apxs. The steps were:

• Install ActiveState Perl for Windows
• Add C:\xampp\apache\bin to the environment variable Path
• Download apxs from here
• Unzip tar.gz file in C:\xampp\apache\bin.
• Execute:

ppm install dmake

cd c:\xampp\apache\bin\apxs

perl Configure.pl --with-apache2=C:\xampp\apache --with-apache-prog=httpd.exe