Compilation Guide on Windows XP/7

work in progress

Environment Setup

1. Checkout the source from Subversion

   svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/branches/2.2/MgDev mgdev
   OR 
   svn export http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/branches/2.2/MgDev mgdev
   

2. Download FDO 3.5 CR1 SDK tarball from ​Here to C:\mgdev\Oem\FDO\ created in step 1. Suppose mgdev is under C:\

   cd C:\mgdev\Oem\FDO
   mkdir fdo-3.5.0
   tar xvvf <tar> -C fdo-3.5.0
   cd fdo-3.5.0/Bin
   mkdir Release
   

Move all contents under Bin to Release folder. The structure of fdo-3.5.0 should be like this:

C:\mgdev\Oem\FDO\fdo-3.5.0\Bin\Release
C:\mgdev\Oem\FDO\fdo-3.5.0\Inc
C:\mgdev\Oem\FDO\fdo-3.5.0\Lib

Build Process

1. Build OEM tree
   • Launch Microsoft Visual Studio
   • File->Open->Project/Solution and browse to oem.sln and click Ok. this will open all 35 Oem projects in Visual Studio
   • In Solution Explorer tree, select Solution 'oem', then click Build->Build Solution, build process will start and should be successful.

2. Build CSMap. Though CSMap is under folder Oem, it is a totally different project from other Oem projects, and it should be built seperately
   • File->Open->Project/Solution and browse to Oem/CsMap/OpenSource.sln, click Ok to open CsMap project in Visual Studio
   • In Solution Explorer tree, select Solution OpenSource, then click Build->Build Solution, build process will start and should be successful.

3. Build MapGuide Server
   • File->Open->Project/Solution and browse to c:\mgdev\Server\server.sln, click Ok to open 29 server projects in Visual Studio
   • In Solution Explorer tree, select Solution Server, then click Build->Build Solution, build process will start and should be successful.

4. Build Web Extension
   • File->Open->Project/Solution and browse to c:\mgdev\Web\src\WebTier.sln, click Ok to open 30 web extension projects in Visual Studio
   • In Solution Explorer tree, select Solution Web Tier, then click Build->Build Solution, build process will start and should be successful.