[mapguide-users] Status on installing MGOS on Debian / Linux

[Paul Spencer]

Alex,

not sure about debian installs, but we are working on a new binary  
installer for MapGuide using FGS (http://www.maptools.org/fgs/) that  
should work on essentially any linux system (there are always some  
problems though).  We have not yet got all the packages built using  
FGS, but I would expect that it would be available in a few weeks.

While I am not working on this directly, I do know that there were  
problems getting it to build with newer GCC (I think we got it  
working with 3.2 and I heard rumours that someone had it building  
with a 4.0 of some version).  I do know that it involves some black  
magic ;)

Keep watching the list for some kind of announcement on this front.

Cheers

Paul


On 4-Apr-07, at 9:42 AM, Alexandre Leroux wrote:

>
> Dear list,
>
> I'm new to the list and new to MapGuide OS. My organization decided  
> to jump in the webmapping bandwagon. At this time, a MapGuide OS  
> solution is favored over a MapServer one.
>
> One of my colleague has been trying to compile and install MapGuide  
> OS on Debian and many problems have been encountered. We don't and  
> can't have root access (not until the product gains operational  
> status). We also tried installing on Fedora Core using the root  
> account, with similar problems (but we really need it to work on  
> Debian, not other Linux flavors).
>
> Before going further in details (e.g. which versions of gcc, make,  
> MGOS, FDO, the numerous configure and compile errors we  
> encountered, etc), I'd like to know what is the status of  
> installing MapGuide Open Source on Debian. Is it normal we have so  
> much trouble? Have people succeeded? :-)
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Alex
> -- 
> Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
> Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
> Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
> Division de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
> Environmental Emergency Response Division
> alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca
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