[mapguide-internals] Re: Upgrade to VC10 and GDAL 1.9

[Trevor Wekel]

Hi Jackie,

We have to move to VC10 for the MapGuide Server in order to use official FDO binaries.  FDO is not planning to release VC9 binaries.  We could keep the web tier on VC9.  This will make the build more complicated.  It looks as though PHP has not moved to VC10 anyway so this might be appropriate.

We may be able to integrate the msi work done Anindya by instead of building Apache and PHP ourselves http://www.anindya.com/2011/09.  Doing complete binaries for the entire Oem tree seems counter-productive (and hard).

As a fallback position, we could build a VC9 version of FDO for MapGuide and stay on VC9.  This makes it more difficult to integrate FDO service packs (ie. we have to do it, instead of clients just dropping in new FDO bins).

I am surprised that Autodesk has not raised this issue anywhere.  I figured they would have run across it as part of the RFC 121 work.
 
Regards,
Trevor

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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng
Sent: February 2, 2012 5:50 AM
To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-internals] Re: Upgrade to VC10 and GDAL 1.9

A little update on my tale of getting VC10-compatible binaries.

I was able to successfully build Apache from source for both x86/x64, so far
so good.

PHP is a whole different story and I am roadblocked at this point. The
binaries under Oem\php does not seem to constitute a functional PHP
distribution. Compare the file listings to the binary release of PHP 5.3.8
and you will see that it is missing a whole lot of dlls which I presume to
be the compiled set of the prerequisite libraries needed by PHP (zlib,
libiconv, libxml2, icu) as described here:

https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/libs#third_party_libraries

So I tried in vain to build these from source:

 * icu - VS2005 sln was provided, converted to VS2010 and built without
issues
 * zlib - No problems
 * libiconv - No msvc makefiles. No sln/vcproj files. Win32 build
instructions only covers cygwin/mingw which is not acceptable!
 * libxml2 - Depends on libiconv, so I can't build this either.

I'm starting to think moving to VC10 is becoming a bad idea. We need VC10
web component binaries and I just cannot build all the required bits from
scratch!

- Jackie

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