[mapserver-users] MapServer and Cygwin. msLoadMap(): Regular expression error. (\.map$)

[Norman Vine]

Ma writes:
>
>I just compiled MapServer (nightly - btw is this v3.5?) using Cygwin on
>Win2k SP2 without errors and when I check it out with Apache I got:
>" No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty".
>I thought it was ok, but it was not.
>The problem is that when I try to use it with mapfile, etc. I got an
>error:
>
>msLoadMap(): Regular expression error. (\.map$)

The linker is probably picking up the Cygwin regex package
so it is not complaining

You need to get and compile the gnu regex package
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/regex/regex-0.12.tar.gz

and change the Makefile variables  
REGEX_OBJ = 
REGEX_INC =  
to point to where you have installed regex

Cheers

Norman