[MS4W-Users] version 4.0.0 pre-release 'alpha' available
Sunohara, Mark
Mark.Sunohara at AGR.GC.CA
Thu Jun 30 14:51:02 EDT 2016
Hello All,
Just installed this alpha version. Don’t forget to install the 'Microsoft Visual C++
2015 Redistributable Update 2' package first (as Jeff said in his post).
Can't wait to test it out!
Big thanks to Jeff at Gateway Geomatics for all his time and effort with these updates.
Cheers,
Mark
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From: MS4W-Users [mailto:ms4w-users-bounces at lists.ms4w.com] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna via MS4W-Users
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 11:42 AM
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Cc: Jeff McKenna
Subject: Re: [MS4W-Users] version 4.0.0 pre-release 'alpha' available
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
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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/).
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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
--
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
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