[mapserver-users] newbie problem running demo

[Puneet Kishor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Radoslaw Rejman [mailto:progmaniak at rejman.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:28 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] newbie problem running demo
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am beginning my work with mapserver. Now I try to run the 
> demo. Everything
> went OK on my local windows machine, I installed mapserver, 
> demo works. I

Welcome, and great.



> have problem running mapserver demo on Unix server. There was 
> no problems
> with compilation and installation, but each time I try to run 
> the demo i
> have:
> 
> msLoadMap(): General error message. Undefined symbol 
> "symbols/ctyhwy.gif" in
> class 0 of layer ctyrdln3_anno.
> 
> Example is at: http://www.ekoprojekt.pl/itasca_koti/demo_init.html
> Where should I look for problem?


1. First, look in the documentation.
2. Second, search the message archives... searching for "symbols/ctyhwy.gif"
at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wilma/mapserver-users produced about
a bazillion hits.


the current and future builds of gd do not support gifs. Replace all gifs
with pngs and everything will work.

Hth.

To those who maintain the demo archives... could all the gifs there be
replaced with pngs anyway so this doesn't come up.

Many thanks,

pk/