[Mapserver-dev] Re: Working PHP Mapscript module produced with SWiG?!

[Daniel Morissette]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Congratulations Mark, I am frankly surprised at how much the SWIG PHP4 
> support has improved since my last try. I did manage to compile a 
> working .so last year, but "working" is a loose use of the work. Many of 
> the functions did not work, and subobjects were flaky at best.
> 

That's great news!  I won't have time to play with that in the near 
future, but if someone has a chance to test it more, then it would be 
interesting to know whether most of the objects and methods seem to work 
fine.

> 
> Is there an implication here that it might be possible to compile a php 
> version of mapscript without the php source tree now? This could make 
> rpm'i'fication of a swig'ed php mapscript much more straightforward.
> 

It should be possible to compile the current version of php_mapscript 
without the full PHP source tree, we only need the php_config.h and the 
Zend headers which should be available in an installed copy of PHP. 
It's just that I never had the time to fix the configure and makefiles 
to work that way.

BTW, it would be great if the same could be done for compiling PostGIS 
without the postgres source.  ;) ;)  Or has it been done already?

Daniel
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