MapServer and Borland C++

[Lyndon Zimmermann]

Daniel,

The desire and necessity for UNIX users to compile from source to suit their
particular machine can be accepted as a given, and I presume they all have compilers
with their operating system, making them effectively free.  Windows users typically
don't get the source code and don't compile their applications before use.  A Windows
compiler is relatively big bucks (I think MS VC/C++ is in the order of A$600 full
price) and high complexity - so much for "Open Source".

I suppose I would ask those doing development of Windows compilation to use a free
compiler rather than an expensive one, or forget about the instructions, Makefiles
etc and just distribute the Windows executable.

PS, I do plan to repeat this exercise under Linux, but I'm currently locked into
delivering on NT.

Regards,

Lyndon Z

Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Back to the question of whether MapServer can be compiled with the
> Borland compiler:  I withdraw what I wrote in my previoyus message...
> it's probably not that simple.
>
> I got the Borland C++ 5.5 command-line compiler (available as freeware
> from the Borland web site in case anyone is interested!) and did a
> couple of quick tests.  Adapting the makefiles was not too bad, but I
> stopped when I started getting errors in the project.h (PROJ.4) header
> file.  Which implies that there would also be work required in some of
> the modules that MapServer uses before we can compile MapServer itself
> with Borland.
>
> Since it's not a trivial task, I think I'll give up for now.  However,
> I'm wondering if there is enough interest to justify supporting the
> Borland compiler???
>
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