[Mapserver-users] Compiling win32 binary

[Zamil Murji]

Hi list,

I decided to use Cygwin to compile mapserv, worked great except for one thing. I built gd-2.0.15 with true type font support (no errors). I didn't make install it. When i build mapserv with --with-gd pointing to that directory, it compiles fine. When I run it on the command line there is no support for true type fonts.

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks
Zamil

-----Original Message-----
From: Pericles S. Nacionales [mailto:nacional at cbs.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:44 PM
To: Zamil Murji
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Compiling win32 binary


Hi!  You're absolutely right, the HOWTO needs updating.  I'm working on
it.  As for compiling MapServer, you need to compile each of the library
you want support from but I can't write instructions for all of them. 
You'll have to read the README and INSTALL instructions from each of
those packages.  Some of the libraries (the GD 2 library in particular)
don't include makefiles for Win32 while some include Visual C/C++
project/workspace files.  DM Solutions provide a Makefile.nt with their
GD2 binary distribution.  To compile your own download gd2_w32.zip from
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/ and copy Makefile.nt to the GD
directory.  This makefile is for MS Visual C/C++ 6.0.  You'll have to
edit this makefile to correct the paths to your source codes.

As for compiling PostGIS, http://postgis.refractions.net have good
online documentation.  You still have to compile the PostgreSQL client
libraries--that too have good documentation at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs.

Good luck!
Perry N.


On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 20:23, Zamil Murji wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have downloaded and unzipped all the packages needed to compile mapserver. The help file is not clear on what to do next. Do I need to compile all of the other packages before compiling mapserver. Also the help file is out of date, is there a newer one kicking around with postgis compiling built in?
> 
> Thanks 
> Zamil
> 
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