[mapserver-users] MapServer and Cygwin. msLoadMap(): Regular expression error. (\.map$)

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Ma and others,

I've written a HOWTO for MapServer and Cygwin.  It should be available on
the MapServer web site.

-Perry N.
pnaciona at gis.umn.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists]On
> Behalf Of Norman Vine
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: 'Ma'; mapserver-users at lists
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] MapServer and Cygwin. msLoadMap():
> Regular expression error. (\.map$)
>
>
> Ma writes:
> >
> >I just compiled MapServer (nightly - btw is this v3.5?) using Cygwin on
> >Win2k SP2 without errors and when I check it out with Apache I got:
> >" No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty".
> >I thought it was ok, but it was not.
> >The problem is that when I try to use it with mapfile, etc. I got an
> >error:
> >
> >msLoadMap(): Regular expression error. (\.map$)
>
> The linker is probably picking up the Cygwin regex package
> so it is not complaining
>
> You need to get and compile the gnu regex package
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/regex/regex-0.12.tar.gz
>
> and change the Makefile variables
> REGEX_OBJ =
> REGEX_INC =
> to point to where you have installed regex
>
> Cheers
>
> Norman
>