[mapserver-users] Help with compiling on Windows?

[Assefa Yewondwossen]

Hi There,

If you only need the binarries, the mapserver site provides windows binaries
with the WMS server and client support :

 http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/win32bin/ms35gif_gdal_wms.zip

Later,

Frank Nelson wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm new to MapServer and at this point I'm still evaluating it.  So far I'm
> very impressed.  However, one of the key items I need to evaluate is its WMS
> Client capabilities.  I'm currently using the binaries on Windows 2000 that
> I downloaded from the homepage.  Per the instructions, I executed "mapserv
> -v" to check out what capabilites it was compiled with.  WMS Server is in
> there, but not WMS Client.  So I thought, no big deal, I'll just recompile
> it and turn on WMS Client.  I didn't know what I was getting myself into!!!
> I'm not a C programmer.  I've followed instructions, searched mailing list
> archives and 3 days later I don't feel like I'm getting any closer.  It
> seems that compiling MapServer itself is straight forward as there is
> documentation and a VC++ makefile.  However it is all the supporting
> libraries that I'm having problems with... and it looks like the regex
> library wasn't even meant to compile on windows.  I think it would've been
> very helpful if, whoever compiled those binares for windows, also made
> available the source that was compiled.. even without documenation.  Then I
> could learn by looking at the changes that were made in order to compile on
> Windows.
> I need all the help I can get but I don't expect anyone to spend tremendous
> amounts of time with me.  So maybe, at a minimum I could get someone who has
> successfully compiled version 3.5 on Windows to jot down a few clues. Some
> sample questions I have are..
> My understanding is that I need to get ZLib, FreeType and LibPNG copmiled
> first.  Then those three will be used to in the GD compiling process.  Then
> all of the above will be used in the MapServer compiling process.... am I on
> the right track?
> Regardless, I can't get anything other than PROJ4 to compile.  For those
> libraries that don't have a Makefile.vc that I can't use VC++ on, what do I
> use to compile?  I downloaded a gcc compiler that has the "make" command,
> but that doesn't seem to work on any of the makefiles and gcc compiles .c
> files into .exe's when I really need .lib's...
> I think I could get MapServer compiled if I could just get all these
> supporting libraries how they need to be.
>
> I don't expect anyone to answer ALL my question, but any little bit of
> information would be GREATLY appreciated!!
>
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Assefa Yewondwossen
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