compiling mapserver on windows problem

[Ed McNierney]

Ivan -

I think Visual Studio is a perfectly reasonable editing environment for MapServer code.  But editors are mainly a matter of personal preference and/or Baby Duck Syndrome, so I wouldn't take my recommendation too seriously.  The only thing I'm suggesting is that you simply use nmake to do builds rather than using the integrated make/compile/debug tools.  But you can still debug in Visual Studio even if you use nmake.

    - Ed




From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Ivan Mjartan
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:50 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] compiling mapserver on windows problem


hi Ed and Frank

Thanks for your reply. I understand that Mapserver is complex and huge software. That was why I was looking for sophisticated programing environment in C/C++. Now I know that Visual Studio is not right way (i was trying it by myself for more than 2days :).

So i have question, Can u recommend to me some programing environment for windows ... now i am using Ultraedit with Ctags (for better look through code).

Have nice day

ivan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jakub Koníček" <jakub.konicek at geovap.cz>
To: <ivan.mjartan at geovap.cz>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] compiling mapserver on windows problem


> Ivan -
>
> I will amplify Frank's observation to point out that MapServer is hard to
> build on Windows because of the many dependencies that seem to completely
> ignore the need for good Windows makefiles!  Many users have loads of
> unnecessary trouble building the regex-0.12 library just to compile ONE
> source file, because the makefile is badly broken.
>
> In general I think makefiles are much more suitable for this purpose than
> project/workspace files.  Workspace files, particularly where there are
> multiple external dependencies, are VERY hard to make portable and very hard
> to maintain.
>
> If you're going to attempt to create a complete build-from-source effort for
> MapServer and all its supporting libraries, I would urge to you to get it
> all working with makefiles first before attempting to import/migrate those
> to .dsp project files.
>
>         - Ed
>
> Ed McNierney
> President and Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
> 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:02 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] compiling mapserver on windows problem
>
> Ivan Mjartan wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have question, is anybody who compile mapserver with Microsoft
> > visual C++ 6.0 ? Because I am not able import source of MapServer and
> > create .dsp (project). Exactly importing source into workspace is not
> > problem, but problem is how I have to set environment to be able
> > compile source of MapServer.
> >
> > Is possible get source file of MapServer setting up for Microsoft
> > visual C++ 6.0 ? Or some idea how transform makefile to by able
> > successfully comile MapServer from Microsoft visual C++ 6.0
> > environment, or see somewhere how can I do it.
> >
> > I apologize for my stupid question, I am novice with programming in
> > Microsoft visual C++ 6.0 and also with MapServer
>
> Ivan,
>
> I don't want to be rude, but MapServer is a monster to build properly on
> Windows because of the many dependencies.  So to start out, if you aren't
> comfortable with mapserver and building complex applications from scratch on
> windows you would be best advised to *avoid* having to build mapserver
> yourself.
>
> Second, those of us who do manage to build mapserver on windows have found
> it hard enough to maintain the existing makefile.vc/nmake.opt solution.
> While someone may be interested in building and maintaining a project file
> for MapServer, I doubt it will be kept up to date as changes occur.
>
> Best regards,
> --
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