[Mapserver-users] Python/Mapscript

[Heitzso]

I followed Sean's sequence and the script failed with a message
about not finding build/lib.  I 'ln -s' a build/lib over to build/lib*
and that error message stopped.  The simple
    from mapscript import *
still failed.  I then went over to the site-packages library and
ripped out all mapserver/mapscript related files and reran
the 'python setup.py install' and this time
    from mapscript import *
succeeded.  I haven't tried to do anything more than that,
but that much is working.

IMPORTANT:  What problems lurk with nightly
4.0 development branch?  Thanks for any warnings.

Thanks,
Heitzso


Sean Gillies wrote:

>
> On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 11:53  AM, Heitzso wrote:
>
>> Good point.   And many thanks for offering to help.
>>
>> I followed the directions at
>>    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PythonMapScript
>> to build the python mapscript module.  In addition to the file
>> modifications noted at that web page, I also had to create several
>> symbolic links in /usr/lib to pick up some of the libraries.   Creating
>> the symbolic links was straight forward.  Altering the files was
>> scarier because I'm not familair with swig setup, but I followed
>> the directions and the 'setup.py install' script ran with only warnings.
>>
>> from python2.2/site-packages, doing a 'ls -1 MapScri* mapscri*'
>> yields:
>>    MapScript.so
>>    MapScriptc.so
>>
>>    mapscript:          MapScript.py
>>        MapScript.pyc
>>        __init__.py
>>        __init__.pyc
>> which were created by the 'python setup.py install' run as
>> root in the mapscript/python directory.
>>
>> Please let me know if there's another sequence I should follow.
>> If you'ld like copies of my files, stdout/stderr output, etc.
>> let me know and I'll prepare.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Heitzso
>>
>>
> Heitzso,
>
> Please disregard the directions on the Wiki page.  They are a bit
> out of date.  Here is the official recipe to compile Python
> MapScript.
>
> 1. Download and compile the latest nightly (pre-4.0) MapServer.
>    This is important because it will allow you to pick up some
>    important changes made to the mapscript wrappers since the
>    4.0beta1 release was made.
> 2. cd into the mapscript/python directory
> 3. execute "python setup.py install".  That's it.
>
> If MapServer was built properly, the newest setup.py script will
> find all the required libraries for you.
>
> Sorry about the confusion with the Wiki, we Python users must
> come together at some point and get the docs straightened out.
>
> cheers,
> Sean
>
> -- 
> Sean Gillies
> sgillies at frii dot com
> http://www.frii.com/~sgillies
>
>