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Node Mapserv on Windows

Although Windows is not currently an officially supported platform for Node Mapserv, the module has been successfully built on Windows. The related GitHub issues (#7 and #14) provide further details on building with Windows.

Installation

It would be nice to simplify the Windows build process to enable a simple npm install mapserv (in a similar manner to the Linux build) but for now it is a manual process along the following lines:

  1. Ensure you have an appropriate version of Node and node-gyp installed.

  2. Download and unpack Node Mapserv. Take note of where the binding.gyp file is.

  3. Download the appropriate Mapserver SDK from the GDAL and MapServer build SDK packages section (e.g. selecting release-1600-dev). Take note of where the Makefile is.

  4. Unpack the SDK and edit binding.gyp to change the ms_buildkit% variable to point to SDK root path.

  5. Download the MapServer source from the GDAL and MapServer latest release versions section (e.g. selecting release-1600-gdal-1-10-0-mapserver-6-2-1 and then release-1600-gdal-1-10-0-mapserver-6-2-1-src.zip).

  6. Unpack the Mapserver source in the root of the SDK. Edit binding.gyp to change the ms_root% variable to point to the Mapserver source root path.

  7. Adapt the SDK Makefile to also point to your Mapserver source root directory (Search for MS_DIR).

  8. Build Mapserver: in a MSVS console go in the SDK directory and type nmake ms. Ensure the libraries listed in binding.gyp correspond to those just built and edit binding.gyp if this isn't the case.

  9. Build Node Mapserv: from a console in the Node Mapserv root directory type npm install .

Note again that Windows is not supported so you will have to work through issues yourself but feel free to discuss suggestions and improvements on GitHub.