[Mapserver-users] MapServer 4.2.0 released

[Mark Adams]

Frank, thanks for this info. A follow-up question though: when I try to
run gdalinfo.exe from the command line, I get a system error message
indicating that a file called msvcr71.dll could not be found in my
system paths. I did a search, I don't have this .dll on my system. It's
not included in the openev_fw packages either. Any idea what this .dll
is and why it's needed (and where I can get it from?)

Thanks again.

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Mark Adams
Business & Systems Analyst
Cuesta Systems Inc.
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Burlington, ON L7L 5K2
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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:21 PM
To: markadams at cuestasys.com
Cc: 'mapserver-users'
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] MapServer 4.2.0 released

Mark Adams wrote:
> Can someone tell me whether the gdal included with the Windows PHP
> mapscript binary packages has support for jpeg 2000 (jp2) files? I
have
> been trying out maplab and received an "unsupported format" error when
> trying to view a jp2 file. The gdal web page indicates that this
format
> should be supported; I can't see any way of determining whether the
dll
> I have installed from the mapscript package somehow excludes this
format
> or not. (I've seen reference to a utility called gdal-config but none
of
> the gdal packages I've been able to find and download include this
> utility.)

Mark,

I *think* the DMSolutions builds of MapServer do not include JPEG2000
support.

All GDAL supported formats are listed on the GDAL web pages, but many
require
additional libraries some of which have various licensing restrictions.
So any
given "build" of GDAL will have only some subset of the potential
formats.

The OpenEV_FW releases I prepare do include MapServer and JPEG2000
support
but they don't include PHP support or some of the other great stuff that
DM Solutions does.  Sometimes it is hard to get a build with everything.

PS. gdal-config is really only available on unix.

PPS.  If you have the commandline programs like gdalinfo you can use
"gdalinfo --formats" to get a list of supported formats in that build.

Best regards,

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