[mapserver-users] Ruby Mapscript on Windows

[Geo Aspects Development]

I have successfully built and used Ruby mapscript on OS X in the past.
I seem to remember having similar (though not identical) problems,  
which I managed to resolve with a little perseverance.
Unfortunately I never tried on Windows

Tim


On 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
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