[Mapserver-users] Compiling win32 binary

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Hi!  You're absolutely right, the HOWTO needs updating.  I'm working on
it.  As for compiling MapServer, you need to compile each of the library
you want support from but I can't write instructions for all of them. 
You'll have to read the README and INSTALL instructions from each of
those packages.  Some of the libraries (the GD 2 library in particular)
don't include makefiles for Win32 while some include Visual C/C++
project/workspace files.  DM Solutions provide a Makefile.nt with their
GD2 binary distribution.  To compile your own download gd2_w32.zip from
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/ and copy Makefile.nt to the GD
directory.  This makefile is for MS Visual C/C++ 6.0.  You'll have to
edit this makefile to correct the paths to your source codes.

As for compiling PostGIS, http://postgis.refractions.net have good
online documentation.  You still have to compile the PostgreSQL client
libraries--that too have good documentation at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs.

Good luck!
Perry N.


On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 20:23, Zamil Murji wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have downloaded and unzipped all the packages needed to compile mapserver. The help file is not clear on what to do next. Do I need to compile all of the other packages before compiling mapserver. Also the help file is out of date, is there a newer one kicking around with postgis compiling built in?
> 
> Thanks 
> Zamil
> 
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University of Minnesota