[Mapserver-dev] Problem with 4.2.0 Distribution

[Paul Spencer]

David, I think this file and others that aren't easily generated are 
available in the nightly builds from the umn download.

Cheers,

Paul

David W. Graham wrote:

> Maybe this is a bug, maybe not.  But I was hoping to get a solution quickly.
>  
> I am trying to compile the MapServer on Win32.  The problem seems to be 
> in the mapparser build system.  If I understand it right mapparser.h is 
> generated by the FLEX compiler using mapparser.y and mapparser.l.  This 
> is useful if you want to change/add tokens to the mapfile.  But frankly 
> I don't have this tool installed and I don't particularly want to.  I 
> have no need to edit the tokens.  I have spent the entire morning 
> working on getting together updated versions of all of the libraries so 
> I could build mapscript.  Could someone just send me a precompiled 
> "mapparser.h" file? 
>  
> I am sorry if I sound frustrated, I have been working on C# MapScript 
> and things are going well, but slow.  In about a half of an hour I had 
> downloaded SWIG, created all the mapscript objects and fixed them to 
> compile in C#.  All I needed to do to make things run was add 
> mapscript_wrap.c to the contents of maplib.dll to make a new 
> mapscript.dll.  Well 4 hours later I still don't have a working 
> compilation of mapserver.
>  
> I think if I could get a mapparser.h file I would be on my way.  Is it 
> possible to get this put in the distribution for us Windows people?
>  
> Dave Graham
>  

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