[mapguide-users] Fwd: MapGuide 4 and Linux

[Gordon Luckett]

That's great Jackie.
Ubuntu 16 is a good choice and used by quite a few organizations.

I'll try out the docker and try the install when available.




On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 11:50 AM Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:

> As it currently stands, we are only targeting Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit.
>
> The main reason for this is that currently MapGuide will not fully build
> on Ubuntu 18.04 (and likely newer versions) due to our bundled version of
> PHP (5.6) requiring OpenSSL <= 1.1.0, which is not not possible on this
> distro
>
> Ubuntu 18.04 provides OpenSSL 1.1.0
> Ubuntu 18.04 also provides OpenSSL 1.0, but this cannot be installed
> side-by-side with the default 1.1.0 package. The 1.1.0 package is also a
> dependency of several build packages.
>
> Of course, PHP 5.6 is already getting the axe and being replaced by PHP 7
> anyways with the ongoing vanilla SWIG binding work so we may (and most
> likely will) bump up the version of Ubuntu to target once the work is
> completed.
>
> I will be putting out a new MapGuide 4.0 preview release in the next few
> weeks (to rollover some post-preview-2 fixes for MapGuide and a significant
> set of changes/fixes for FDO). This preview will still target Ubuntu 16.04.
>
> If you have to use another distro, the current prescription is to build
> and run MapGuide on an Ubuntu16-based docker image,
>
> - Jackie
>
> You wrote:
>
> What versions of Linux will MapGuide 4 support?
>
> i.e. Ubuntu 20.10?
>
> thanks!
>
>
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