[mapserver-users] MacOS X once again

[Lowell Filak]

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--- Puneet Kishor <pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com> wrote:
> All right you brainiacs,
> 
> Last night I got Mapserver to compile on MacOS X
> 10.1.1. Couldn't get gd12
> to compile but did get gd184 to compile with jpeg
> and libpng. Then Mapserver
> compiled too, although it did puke out a thousand
> abuses at me.
> 
> Then I ran Mapserver from the command line and it
> gave me the reassuring...
> 
> [darwin/~pkishor]% ./mapserv
> This script can only be used to decode form results
> and
> should be initiated as a CGI process via a httpd
> server.
> [darwin/~pkishor]%
> 
> ahhhhhh... paydirt, you say. Not so quick, I say.
> 
> First, I really need to compile it with gd12,
> because, while png is
> nice'n'all, my browsers don't do png.
> 
> Second, I think those vituperations Mapserver hurled
> at me during
> compilation tell me something's wrong. When I tried
> to test with the itasca
> demo I got a bunch of binary crap in my browser...
> 
> usually when the browser encounters a png file it
> simply pops up a box
> saying it doesn't know how to handle it. Not this
> time. This time it was a
> load of binary... the kind of comic characters you
> see the vikings speak in
> "Asterix in Scandinavia".
> 
> I am going to do the whole thing again today, and
> try to capture the buffer
> from the terminal. I will also enlist the help of a
> colleague who knows a
> malloc from a mallet. My hope is once I get this
> running, I will package it
> up as an OS X binary package using packagemaker.
> 
> Over and out.
> 
> pk/


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