Problem compiling Mapserver

[Sean Gillies]

Howard Butler's binary site appears to be temporarily offline but
should be back soon.  His 4.3 binaries will work fine with the
latest 0.7.6 release of zmapserver.

cheers,
Sean

On Aug 18, 2004, at 7:38 AM, Michael Schulz wrote:

> Welcome Etienne,
>
> I assume you want to start using mapserver/python/zmapserver on 
> windows since you mention a dos
> command bar, is that right? I would suggest using precompiled binaries 
> instead of compiling
> everything on your own.
>
> Have a look at 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PythonMapScript
> there you will find links where to download precompiled 
> python/mapscript binaries ("External
> Links"). You will need one of these (depending on your requirements, 
> with oraclespatial, etc.) to
> use zmapserver.
>
> Be careful to choose packages that use the same python version, e.g. 
> if you use zope2.7 this will
> mean you have to use python2.3 and accordingly choose the 
> mapscript/python build.
>
> After you have installed the python/mapscript binary you can start 
> using mapscript in a python shell
>   and you can use zmapserver with zope.
>
> HTH, Michael
>
>
> Etienne Desgagné schrieb:
>
>> Hi everyone, I'm new here and I have problem to start compiling 
>> mapserver. I
>> have download and install Python and Mapserver and I just want to 
>> compile
>> mapserver. It's problably funny (I must begin somewhere...) but I 
>> don't know
>> where to type the ./configure --with... . In a dos command bar? My 
>> project
>> is to install Plone/Zope and ZmapServer after that.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Etienne.
>>
>
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