On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:29:40 -0500, Howard Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>(...)I also maintain a set of windows binaries at ><http://hobu.stat.iastate.edu/mapserver> that you can use with the SDE 9.0 >DLLs to try MapServer SDE support. Howard (and anyone else out there), I've been immersed in Mapserver for a little over a week, and am trying to absorb a good number of things quickly, including PHP, javascript, Python, CGI,... anyway, am looking for a path of least resistence for demonstrating Mapserver with ArcSDE support. I've downloaded the "kitchen sink" binaries -- Standard Dist for SDE90 only so far, not the Python MS 2.x -- and was trying to graft them onto my ms4w installation's cgi-bin directory. (and I've added the sde91.dll from my EDN collection, altho the binary is supposed to be compatible with SDE90 only, so a recompile is probably due on my end soon..) For one thing, the kitchen sink mapserv.exe is tiny compared to the ms4w -- can I assume this is a static link vs. dynamic link issue? Anyway, the little mapserv.exe responds to "mapserv -v" showing SDE as an Input , but I was trying to demo one of the simple PHP pages (from the "workshop" I think) by adding a CONNECTIONTYPE=SDE to the map file, and when I run it, I get the "SDE support is not available" error from the MS open sde layer code -- which I believe only fires when compiled when USE_SDE is not defined in. (so I'm not even executing mapserv.exe?) To make a long question short (too late?), is there a basic incompatibility between PHP Mapscript and ArcSDE that I can or cannot cure by rebuilding assorted components? Should I simply move my proof-of-concept to Python (or possibly javascript)? Thanks, Robert H.
