Easy way to get standalone mapserver already compiled

[M.L. Jackson]

Thanks but I only have one mapscript application........lol.


>From: Vitor Buitoni <vitor.buitoni at DIGITRO.COM.BR>
>Reply-To: Vitor Buitoni <vitor.buitoni at DIGITRO.COM.BR>
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Easy way to get standalone mapserver 
>already compiled
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:26:36 -0300
>
>M.L. Jackson escreveu:
>
>>I downloaded MS4W before but I noticed that there was a lot of unneeded 
>>programs included as well as an Apache server which was of no use to me.  
>>I never explored the cgi-bin directory.  After reading your reply and 
>>looking in the cgi-bin directory, I found exactly what I needed.
>>
>>I basically copied all of mapserver's dependent libraries (and I'm sure 
>>some other unneeded dll files) from the cgi-bin directory into a system 
>>folder.  I made sure that Tomcat added this system folder to its library 
>>path so that mapscript/mapserver could find the .dll files when needed.
>
>It's not a very good idea to copy the dll files to a system folder, since 
>it might break things... The best thing to do would be to add the folder 
>with the dll files to the PATH environment variable and tomcat library 
>path. (-Djava.library.path)
>>   I then copied the mapscript.jar file found in cgi-bin/mapscript/java 
>>into my project's WEB-INF/lib directory.  Because Tomcat is sometimes 
>>flimsy, it would be a good idea to manually copy the mapscript.jar file to 
>>your project's WEB-INF/lib directory within Tomcat and not depend upon 
>>deployment necessarily doing the job correctly.
>
>If you put the mapscript.jar into your project's WEB-INF/lib directory, 
>you'll only be able to have one webapp inside tomcat using mapscript. If 
>you want to have more than one webapp using mapscript, you should put 
>mapscript.jar into the tomcat's shared/lib directory.
>I recommend you take a look in this documentation:
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/java_mapscript_Tomcat_55
>
>Vitor.
>>
>>Well, not a very detailed write-up but due to time constraints it is the 
>>best that I can do.  Maybe someone can take this write-up and make it more 
>>detailed and formal.  If no one can, I can probably write it up at a later 
>>date.  By the way, I am using MyEclipse for my mapserver project 
>>development.
>>
>>Thanks, Jeff.
>>
>>>From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at DMSOLUTIONS.CA>
>>>Reply-To: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at DMSOLUTIONS.CA>
>>>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>>>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Easy way to get standalone mapserver 
>>>already compiled
>>>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:57:07 -0400
>>>
>>>Um, isn't that what MS4W is?
>>>
>>>I think the only thing it is missing for you would be a java servlet 
>>>right?  Tomcat or something?  You can definitely start with MS4W and add 
>>>configure that for your servlet...but I am no java guy so I am no precise 
>>>help.
>>>
>>>If you do decide to use MS4W, maybe you could document your work and 
>>>possibly contribute a java section to the readme for MS4W?  (meaning what 
>>>it took you to use the files in \ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin\mapscript\java\).
>>>
>>>jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>M.L. Jackson wrote:
>>>>What I am essentially looking for is a fully compiled distribution of 
>>>>mapserver for Windows.  Instead of having to compile the entire 
>>>>mapserver source code, I would like to download a fully compiled package 
>>>>with support for all the programming languages (in particular Java 
>>>>mapscript) and all the essential supporting libraries for full 
>>>>functionality plus wms support without the hassle.  Am I asking for too 
>>>>much?  :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>From: "Rahkonen Jukka" <Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>
>>>>>To: "M.L. Jackson" 
>>>>><mljacks2 at HOTMAIL.COM>,<MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>>>>>Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Easy way to get standalone mapserver 
>>>>>already compiled
>>>>>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:31:54 +0300
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>How about Mapserver included in the FW Tools set, could it be something 
>>>>>close to what you are searching for?
>>>>>
>>>>>-Jukka Rahkonen-
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of M.L. Jackson
>>>>>Sent: Fri 11.8.2006 22:58
>>>>>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>>>>>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Easy way to get standalone mapserver 
>>>>>already compiled
>>>>>
>>>>>Is there an easy way to get mapserver and all its supporting libraries 
>>>>>in an
>>>>>already compiled package with nothing else included?  I am having a 
>>>>>headache
>>>>>trying to compile the source code.  Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Jeff McKenna
>>>DM Solutions Group Inc.
>>>http://www.dmsolutions.ca
>>
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