[MS4W-Users] version 4.0.0 pre-release 'alpha' available
Jeff McKenna
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Mon Jun 27 11:45:47 EDT 2016
I should note that phpinfo.php is actually included in your /ms4w/tmp/
folder (for security reasons); so be sure to move that file into
/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/ if you need it for your testing.
Thank you.
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
On 2016-06-27 12:42 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Another alpha build (alpha3) is now available on the download server
> (http://www.ms4w.com/release/experimental/), which contains PHP 7.0.8 as
> well as its extensions. Thank you to those who had filed tickets for
> specific PHP extensions (at http://ms4w.com/trac). Note that most of
> the extensions are loaded by default in PHP, so the best way to check
> what extensions are included is through a phpinfo() call (there is a
> 'phpinfo.php' file already included in /ms4w/apache/htdocs/ Technical
> users might want to check the configure command used when I compiled
> this PHP, which is shown in the phpinfo() results (or here is a
> screenshot, see the 5th row in the table:
> http://pasteboard.co/1ZYfzJyX.png). Don't be afraid to request
> additional extensions through the MS4W tracker: http://ms4w.com/trac -
> the time is now for feedback and requests.
>
> PHP 7 is of course a big improvement (and I've invested almost 2 months
> of my time to rebuild the entire MS4W stack for PHP 7, which requires
> the latest compiler). You can check online for performance improvements
> of PHP 7, most estimate 3X speed improvements with this version (wow).
> An important note of course is that PHPMapScript is not yet included in
> the alpha, as it definitely requires additional development time and
> effort; so please please contact me directly if your organization can
> help fund this effort.
>
> Thank you for using MS4W.
>
> -jeff
>
> -------
>
> Please check the 'HISTORY.txt' file in the alpha, for a list of changes
> in your alpha build.
>
> To use these alpha builds, be sure to install the 'Microsoft Visual C++
> 2015 Redistributable Update 2
> ' package first (vc_redist.x86.exe):
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51682 An
> important note: because of this new compiler, old systems running
> Windows XP (and possible Windows Server 2003) can no longer be
> supported. But of course if need be, I can provide custom builds with
> the old compiler for those organizations requiring that.
>
> I realize that so many organizations (many on this mailing list) rely
> heavily on MS4W, so please contact me directly to help support its
> development with funding. It is very important.
>
> Below is a list of recent changes. If you want the latest stable MS4W
> release, please download last month's MS4W 3.1.4 release (from
> http://ms4w.com/).
>
> *************************************
>
> 2016-06-27 Gateway Geomatics
> * ms4w version 4.0.0-alpha3 created. Notable changes are:
>
> - upgraded PHP to 7.0.8 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler (trac
> ticket 5)
> - built additional PHP extensions with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler:
> pdo_mysql (trac ticket 52), pdo_oci, oci8, bzip2
> - rebuilt all GDAL plugins and bindings
> - moved CSharp, Java, Python bindings into folder
> /ms4w/gdalbindings/
> - updated script /gdalbindings/python/test-cgi-mapscript.py for
> Python 3
>
> *PHPMapScript will not work in this version, needs dev work +
> funding
>
> 2016-06-20 Gateway Geomatics
> * ms4w version 4.0.0-alpha2 created. Notable changes are:
>
> - rebuilt MapServer 7.1-dev with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt Apache with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded MapCache to 1.5-dev with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt mod_fcgid with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded OpenSSL support to 1.0.2h with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded cURL support to 7.49.1 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt Apache H264 Streaming Module with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded BerkeleyDB support to 6.2.23 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
>
> *still need to rebuild PHP 7 (& its extensions), therefore PHP
> & MapScript
> will not work in this version
>
> 2016-05-06 Gateway Geomatics
> * ms4w version 3.1.4 created. Notable changes are:
>
> - upgraded GDAL to 2.1.0 (trac ticket 50)
> - upgraded Apache to 2.4.20 (trac ticket 55)
> - upgraded OpenSSL support to 1.0.2h (trac ticket 57)
> - upgraded CURL support to 7.48.0
>
> 2016-04-21 Gateway Geomatics
> * ms4w version 4.0.0-alpha1 created. Notable changes are:
>
> - rebuilt JPEG support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt zlib support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt libPNG support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt libTIFF support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt PROJ.4 support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded GeoTIFF support to SVN-trunk-03282016 with Visual
> Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded Expat support to 2.1.1 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded Xerces support to 3.1.3 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - rebuilt SZIP support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded MrSID support to SDK 9.5.1 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded PostgreSQL support to 9.5.2 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded MySQL support to 5.7.11 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded GEOS support to SVN-trunk-0404016 with Visual Studio
> 2015 compiler
> - upgraded SQLite support to 3.12.0 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded ICONV support to 1.14 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded FreeXL support to 1.0.2 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - rebuilt libxml2 support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded Python support to 3.5.1 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded MySQL support to 5.7.12 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded SpatiaLite support to 4.4.0-RC0 with Visual Studio
> 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt ReadOSM support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded SpatiaLite support to 4.4.0-RC0 with Visual Studio
> 2015 compiler
> - upgraded spatialite-tools support to 4.4.0-RC0 with Visual
> Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded FITS support to 3.380 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt OpenSSL support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded cURL support to 7.48.0 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt NetCDF support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded LibKML support to git-04182016 with Visual Studio
> 2015 compiler
> - upgraded Freetype support to 2.6.3 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded Pixman support to 0.34.0 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - rebuilt Cairo support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt Poppler support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded SWIG support to 3.0.8 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt Python, Oracle GDAL plugins with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - added Java, CSharp, ECW (3.3 SDK) GDAL plugins with Visual
> Studio 2015 compiler
> - moved all GDAL plugins into /gdalplugins/
> - added HDF5 1.8.16 support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - added HDF4 4.2.11 support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded GDAL support to 2.1.0-dev with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded PCRE support to 8.38 with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - rebuilt FriBidi support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
> - upgraded HarfBuzz support to 1.2.6 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - upgraded GIFLIB support to 5.1.2 with Visual Studio 2015
> compiler
> - rebuilt FastCGI support with Visual Studio 2015 compiler
>
> *still need to rebuild MapServer (& its libraries), Apache (&
> its modules), PHP (& its extensions), ...
> *therefore MapServer, Apache, PHP will not work in this version
>
>
>
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