[mapserver-users] Help with compiling on Windows?
Pericles S. Nacionales
pnaciona at gis.umn.edu
Tue Apr 2 11:58:26 PST 2002
Frank,
There are several MapServer binaries for Win32 available in the
MapServer site. Some of them have WMS client support turned on and some
don't. If you really want to compile them on your own using VC/C++ 6.0,
I've packaged my source tree awhile back and made it available for
download at http://arbutus.gis.umn.edu/projects/ms35.zip.
It's about 95 Mb so might take forever to download if you're using a 56K
modem.
Good luck!
Perry N.
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[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Frank
Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 5:28 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Help with compiling on Windows?
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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