[mapserver-users] compiling on windows

[Frank Warmerdam]

Florin A. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to compile MapServer on Windows Server 2003.  I followed all 
> the instructions on 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/win32_compiling and I'm stuck 
> with regex errors.  The errors are the same as this post 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mapserver-users@lists.umn.edu/msg15996.html 
> 
> I'm compiling with nmake from Microsoft Visual Studio 8
> 
> I also tried compiling with the buildkit from 
> http://download.osgeo.org/buildkit/  and got the same errors.
> 
> regex.c
> C:\projects\regex-0.12\regex.c(768) : warning C4018: '<' : 
> signed/unsigned mismatch
...
> C:\projects\regex-0.12\regex.c(1953) : warning C4018: '>' : 
> signed/unsigned mismatch
> 
> 
> I tried the correction mentioned for the regex.c file:
> 
> //extern void printchar ();
> void printchar( int i ) {}
> 
> 
> This made no difference. I also tried with the win32 regex distribution 
> from http://people.delphiforums.com/gjc/gnu_regex.exe and again, exactly 
> the same errors.
> 
> Has anybody else encountered this regex error?  Shouldn't nmake work 
> with no problems on the buildkit ? 

Florin,

The above are just warnings.  I would encourage you to just ignore them
and proceed.

Best regards,
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