Mapserver compiled with Microsoft Visual C++

[bfischer at usgs.gov]

I want to thank Brent Fraser and Assefa Yewondwossena for helping me with
compiling mapserver for NT with freetype and libtiff.  I'm sorry I did not
try Brent's instructions, but they look like they would work just fine.  I
used Assefa's makefiles for Visual C++.  For anyone else that is new to
using Microsoft Visual C++, like myself.  I think it might be important to
add this to Assefa's step four:


These are insturctions to compile Freetype:
 - Open Visual C++

 - Open Workspace (File Menu) : ./freetype/lib/arc/win32/freetype.dsw. It
is a visual project file
(containing all the refernece to the source code).

 - Once it is loaded you go in the menu Build and you should see Build
freetype.lib. Select that and
it is supposed to build for you the library. I beleive the libaray will be
build in the directory
./freetype/lib/arch/win32/debug/freetype.lib.

- Once it is build, copy this library in the directory ./freetype/lib; this
is because the makefiles
from mapserver that I sent expect to find the freetype.lib in that
directory.

- Last step is to build mapserver using the command nmake /f makefile.vc in
the mapserver main
directory. There is also a readme.vc file for reference.

Thanks again,

Brian Fischer
bfischer at usgs.gov
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