[mapserver-users] Mapserver and Windows

[Puneet Kishor]

ed makes the most sensible points here... 

there are a couple of issues though... and since no one else has mentioned
them, I am wondering if I am wrong in assuming thus --

- If you want to use Perl/Mapscript, it has not been known to compile and
run well on Windows.

- If you want to use PHP/Mapscript, you have to make sure your Apache is
capable of dynamically loading the php_mapscript.dll... in most cases (at
least that's what I did), one just grabs the pre-built Apache binary from
apache.org website, and that is built so it can't load dlls dynamically.

and just to counter one of ed's assumptions... we are a primarily windows
operation, however, I think only one machine in the entire company has the C
compiler loaded. All *nix boxes by default have the compilers installed.

my mapserver is running on a red hat box, and I do my application
development on a Windoze 2k connected to the mapserver box that is sharing
its drives using Samba. I use jEdit (from jedit.org) for development, and I
can take the scripts home and work seamlessly on my iBook at home using
jedit.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed McNierney [mailto:ed at topozone.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:05 AM
> To: Stefano Bonnin; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Mapserver and Windows
> 
> 
> Stefano -
> 
> A LOT depends on what operating systems you are experienced 
> with and able to support.  As has been mentioned, Windows 
> doesn't include many of the development tools that come with 
> Unix.  But if you are already a Windows operation you're 
> going to have those tools already.  If you don't, it's not 
> worth buying and learning them.
> 
> The skill and expertise associated with running either 
> Windows or Unix is VERY important for any Web server 
> operation.  If you know how to use and manage one system 
> better than the other, that's likely to be the better choice.
> 
> We run MapServer on Linux and Windows 2000, and they're 
> mostly (in my opinion) just different.  Each has advantages 
> and disadvantages and neither one stands out as clearly 
> better than the other.
> 
> 	- Ed
> 
> Ed McNierney
> Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Bonnin [mailto:shpr at libero.it]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:44 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver and Windows
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a simple question: which advantages I have if I use 
> mapserver in a
> unix environment instead in a windows enviroment?
> 
> In other words, are there more disadvantage if I use a 
> windows environment
> (instead unix)?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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