[mapserver-users] Ruby Mapscript on Windows

[Umberto Nicoletti]

Peter,
I have built the ruby bindings on linux lately, but never on Windows.
Have you tried asking on the ms4w mailing list?

Best regards,
Umberto

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:47 AM,  <hazzard43 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Does anybody have any advice on how to get Ruby Mapscript working on
> Windows (2003), or does anybody have any pre-compiled Windows Ruby
> bindings? I'm a bit stuck finding a working version. The MS4W package
> comes with C#, Java, PHP and Python bindings, but no Ruby, and I haven't
> been able to find any online. I've tried compiling my own copy of
> Mapserver using the Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the buildkit available
> at http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/dl/buildkit/, and while I can manage
> a working copy of mapserv.exe I haven't been able to compile the Ruby
> bindings. I'm able to run 'ruby extconf.rb' and generate a makefile, but
> running 'nmake' gets me some function redefinition errors (for strnicmp
> and stricmp between string.h and mapserver.h).
>
> If anybody's either had any experience generating the Ruby bindings on
> Windows or has a precompiled set of files, any help would be
> appreciated. I can supply more detailed information about the
> environment or the errors if it'll help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
> --
>
>  hazzard43 at fastmail.fm
>
> --
> http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service?
>
> _______________________________________________
> mapserver-users mailing list
> mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
>