Mapserver+Windows+ArcSDE

[Howard Butler]

At 10:37 AM 10/24/2006, Pleyer, Walter wrote:
>Hi folks!
>
>We are trying to use mapserver on Windows in connection with ArcSDE.
>So far rather unsuccessfully, we keep getting an error message like "sde
>connection Network I/O error. (-10)"

I need more information about what you are trying to do when you get 
these errors.  Are you trying to just render a layer?  Are you 
attempting to do versioned queries?  Have you tried shp2img?  Which 
backend database are you connecting to (SQL Server, Oracle, or 
something else)? Have you turned on DEBUG output to see what is 
happening?  -10 Network I/O error is SDE's 
catch-everything-because-I-don't-know-what-the-problem-is error.  It 
can mean lots of things, and it usually means the problem is with SDE 
and not the client connecting to it.


>Does anyone have experience with this combination?
>And is mapserver for Windows with SDE support as binary available in any
>other form but the  MS4W package?
>It doesn't make things easier, if you have to take the package apart to
>isolate mapserver since we have all the other software up and running.

I have to disagree with this statement.  Your other option is to 
build MapServer and all of its dependencies from scratch on your 
platform of choice (Windows in your case).  The time and misery 
required to do that is at least an order of magnitude larger than 
peeling apart the .\bin and .\cgi-bin directories plus the SDE 
libmap.dll from the MS4W package.

Howard