[ms4w-users] Mapserver broken? ms4w 1.5.2

[Jeff McKenna]

we are looking into it.  I'm not sure what "went wrong" yet though (we 
had to change some things to fix the php.exe crash, and it may have 
impacted this).  For now just search for the files and download them.

jeff




Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> I also checked, I think something went wrong with the compile, since it 
> seems to depend on the debug dll's from Microsoft.
> 
> Downloading the following 2 dll's and placing them in the cgi-bin folder 
> of MS4W is a temporary fix:
> 
> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcp71d
> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcr71d
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> Schmoll,Martin [Edm] wrote:
> 
>> I just uninstalled ms4w 1.5.1, and installed ms4w 1.5.2. I have the 
>> same problem as Ben – MapServer won’t start. I get the same errors.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> * Ben Madin *
>> /Mon May 8 //08:33:14 EDT// 2006/
>>
>> I have applied the patch referred to in Bugzilla Bug 1409 [MS4W-P HP]
>> Application error php.exe
>> and appeared to be OK,
>> but when I downloaded the ms4w 1.5.2 I have been unable to start  
>> Mapserver, getting a message about a missing library. I have tried  
>> downloading that library and restarting the computer, but it didn't  
>> help.
>> Jacob Delfos has been quite helpful, but I am not an expert on this  
>> stuff by any stretch, and was quite fond of the drag and work  
>> approach of ms4w, so would rather see if that can be fixed.
>>  
>> clicking on cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
>> The web page gave a message about a configuration error, but the  
>> error log showed :
>>  
>> Premature end of script headers: mapserv.exe, referer : http:// 
>> 10.0.1.2/index.phtml
>>  
>> When I follow http://10.0.1.2/phpinfo_mapscript_48.php
>>  
>> I get :
>>  
>> Warning: dl() [function.dl.html]: Unable to load dynamic library '/ 
>> ms4w/Apache/php/extensions/php_mapscript_48.dll' - The specified  
>> module could not be found. in C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs 
>> \phpinfo_mapscript_48.php on line 2
>>  
>> as the library is in this location, I assume that this is a problem  
>> related to Mapserver above.
>>  
>> When I just double clicked on the mapserv.exe I got this message
>>  
>> mapserv.exe - Unable to locate Component
>>  
>> This application has failed to start because MSVCR71D.dll was not  
>> found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>>  
>> Also with Dependency Walker,  MSVCP71D.dll was missing. It might be  
>> the same thing, I am not sure!
>>  
>> cheers
>>  
>> Ben
>>  



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Jeff McKenna
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