[mapserver-users] RE: MacOS X once again one more time

[Puneet Kishor]

oh, one more thing...

Mapserver was unable to find the 'symbols/????' -- that is, all the gif
symbols in the demo.map. I had to comment all of those out. Again, this has
perhaps to do with the absolute pathing problem, no?

pk/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Puneet Kishor 
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:42 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Cc: Greg Mader; Steve Allenstein
> Subject: MacOS X once again one more time
> 
> 
> ok, here's the scoop.
> 
> I've got Mapserver 3.5 working on my Pismo G3 running MacOS X 
> 10.1.1. Additionally, I can get IE also to view the PNGs 
> (sorry Ed, I did hath misspoke).
> 
> 
> Gory details --
> 
> 
> gd1.8.4 based on libjpeg (jpeg v6b) and libpng (libpng 
> 1.2.1). Clear instructions for compiling gd on MacOS X are at 
> http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/2001-06-12.01.html.
> 
> Apple includes Zlib (required for libpng).
> 
> I was unable to compile gd1.2.
> 
> When compiling Mapserver, best is _not_ to give the --with-gd 
> path, etc. Let .configure find gd itself. It does so.
> 
> A few interesting tidbits --
> 
> 1. I had to enter the absolute paths for the demo.map and the 
> tmp file in the demo_init.html. Without absolute paths 
> mapserv did not know where to go. It would be nice to be able 
> to enter relative paths in order to make an application 
> portable. Am I overlooking something obvious?
> 
> 2. I had to set the owner and group of tmp to www and nobody. 
> Otherwise the images were not getting written to the tmp 
> directory. Anyone know anyway to get around this?
> 
> 
> Other than that, everything works. I need to recompile my 
> Mapserver with PHP support. Guess I need to read Daniel's directives.
> 
> SDL -- do I have to do anything special to compile 
> Perl/Mapscript in Mapserver... this is the portion I am 
> unclear about. I know you answered my query re. 
> Perl/Mapscript on Windoze. But, now my question is 
> specifically wrt *nix version.
> 
> 
> Once all this is done and kosher I want to use something like 
> packagemaker or installermaker or DaMage or some such... to 
> create a MacOS X binary package. Click and install. Most all 
> MacOS X setups are gonna be identical so providing a binary 
> would save us Mac types with a bunch of grief. I mean, I 
> really don't know a c-compiler from an icon.
> 
> Today is good.
> 
> pk/
>