A Windows Build Tree for MapServer
Pericles S. Nacionales
naci0002 at UMN.EDU
Wed Feb 8 13:38:58 EST 2006
Howard,
I haven't touched the Windows stuff in quite a while but am now
interested in revisiting it again. I think documenting the entire
process would be very helpful even to those who might use other
compilers, etc.
-Perry
Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
>
> Assefa and I have been collaborating on a unified build tree for
> Windows binaries for MapServer. This is a note to tell you what has
> been done so far and to propose some changes to the nmake.opt and
> makefile.vc files to streamline our build process a little bit and
> make it work nicely with the build tree.
>
> Building MapServer on Windows is a major PITA. I have maintained
> something called the "kitchen sink," Assefa has maintained MS4W and
> PHP MapScript, and Perry also has a binary set. I would like to try
> to collect things together a bit so they all build off of common
> stuff. The reasoning behind this is to make it a bit easier for folks
> to swap libmap.dlls to get functionality from one build or another
> (mostly thinking of SDE, Oracle, and MrSID) into various .exe and
> MapScripts. I do not know whether or not this dream is realistic or not.
>
> In any case, I have been working on a build tree at
> <http://hobu.stat.iastate.edu/mapserver/build_output/assefa>. It
> contains almost everything for a full GDAL and MapServer build.
> Everything has been brought up to date. Everything has been built
> dynamically with /MD. GDAL is built with plugins for SDE, Oracle, and
> MrSID. The intent is for someone wishing to build their own MapServer
> to just grab the build tree, tweak nmake.opt to give the path to it
> and do nmake /f makefile.vc and have it build up everything all at
> once. This is with MSVC 7.1, so it obviously isn't for everyone, but
> I think it could go a long way in making it much easier for folks to
> build things without having to worry about the bazillions of little
> issues that crop up along the way.
>
> To make this work, I have done some slight modifications to the
> nmake.opt and makefile.vc files. These include setting things up to
> use relative paths, and creating install targets for the mapscripts
> and .exe/.dll so they are collated into the ../bin directory. I would
> like to go through nmake.opt and make some changes to make things be
> relative to this build tree. I would also add some things like SWIG
> and JAVA_HOME to make it easier to have MapScript build targets. I
> would make these changes in CVS HEAD. I would also create/edit the
> Win32 build HowTo to describe how to use this.
>
> If people want to me to write an RFC to describe this stuff I can do so.
>
> As an aside, I would really like to reconfigure Oracle and SDE to use
> the plugin architecture. They seem to cause no end of requests.
> Using plugins for these should make our build layout/setup much
> easier. I plan on pursuing this for the Hawaii 5-0 release.
>
> Howard
>
> .
>
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