FWD: how to build php/mapscript dll

[chenrg at gtong.net]

Dear Morissette,
Thank you very much for your help. I finally find the php-3.014 source and complied with mapscript/php3. The size of the php3_mapscript.dll (i rebuilt using php-3.014)  is also 1,134,661 bytes, but it works. I'm very happy to see the result. I'll modify some source to support GB2132 Chinese code (The original mapserver only supports UTF8 and Big5 code). I've tried IIS4, Apache and iPlanet. Mapserver is very efficent. It is faster than MapXTreme Java V3.0 and ArcIMS V3.0. Our company will try to use MapServer for logistics application (add some network analysis module). Most of our apps are composed of JSP. I wander if mapserver can support JSP.  
thx.
Chen Rongguo  Chenrg at Dichain.com 
Http: //www.Dichain.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Morissette" <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
To: <chenrg at gtong.net>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: FWD: how to build php/mapscript dll


> > chenrg at gtong.net wrote:
> > 
> > dear sir,
> > i've used Mapserver V3.0.11 and the newer for several months. I
> > modified
> > gdft/dfttf.c to support GB2132 Chinese code and rebuilt mapserv.exe.
> > it works
> > well. Now i tried php/mapscripts dll, it works if using the win32
> > binary
> > php3_mapscript.dll (built using php-3.0.14). i have to rebuild the dll
> > to
> > support chinese GB code, but i can't find php-3.0.14 source. so i
> > tried
> > php-3.0.16, php-3.0.17, php-3.0.18, php-4.0.1pl2, php-4.04 to build
> > the
> > mapscript dll, but the dll can not be loaded by php program. The size
> > of the
> > dll i built (using php-3.0.16/17/18) is 1,134,661 bytes, the dll
> > binary
> > (using php-3.0.14, which can be loaded successfully by php) size is
> > 1,130,564
> > bytes. i don't know the differnces between php-3.0.14 and php-3.0.16.
> 
> The php-3.0.16 source should do... we used it before without any
> problem.
> 
> You write that your DLL refuses to load.  Do you get any error message?
> Any warning in the apache error_log file?  Does it make PHP crash?
> 
> One important thing if you've modified the GDFT stuff is to make sure
> that your PHP is not compiled with TTF support because then you could
> have a conflict between MapServer's GDFT files and PHP's GDFT.
> 
> > Are
> > there some people can help me how to build php/mapscript.dll?  where
> > can i get
> > the php-3.0.14 source? how can i use php-4.0.4 for php/mapscript?
> > many thanks
> 
> I could get you a copy of the php-3.0.14 source, but as I wrote above
> the 3.0.16 source should be OK.  About php-4.0.4, it is even trickier to
> compile on Windows than PHP3... so I suggest that you stick with PHP3
> for now.
> 
> Please send me any error message you get and we'll see what we can do. 
> (Probably a good idea to Email me directly to avoid bugging the list
> with boring windows build details!)
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette                morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>                  http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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