[mapserver-dev] Building external projects with libmapserver

[Paul Spencer]

Hi Thomas,

I am interested in the public C API for consumption in node-mapserver.

Cheers

Paul

On 2013-09-26, at 6:29 AM, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Bas,
> The higher level issue we have is that we do not publish a public API,
> and therefore there should be no 3rd party applications having the
> need to link or compile against us. That said, we could rather easily
> bring back the mapserver-config script by having it generated by cmake
> (very closely to the patches you've applied for debian). For 7.0 I
> would like to publish such an API that would be sufficient for
> mapcache, other interested projects can chime in and help if they need
> further functionality exposed.
> 
> regards,
> thomas
> 
> On 26 September 2013 11:35, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Related to the recent threads about building MapCache with MapServer
>> support on mapserver-users [1] and zoo-project on mapserver-dev [2].
>> 
>> The mapserver-config executable provided build information that is no
>> longer available in the current CMake builds.
>> 
>> While it's possible to build MapCache 1.2.0 with MapServer 6.2.1 by just
>> specifying MAPSERVER_LIBRARY, this is not sufficient to build MapCache
>> 1.2.0 with MapServer 6.4.0.
>> 
>> For the Debian packages I've patched the CMake build to export a CMake
>> module which contains among others the list of include directories used
>> to build MapServer so these can be included in the MapCache build.
>> [3][4] This information used to be provided by mapserver-config, but has
>> no equivalent in MapServer 6.4.0.
>> 
>> While the exported module looks like a nice solution for CMake based
>> projects, autotools based projects are not able to easily get the list
>> of includes required for MapServer. Or they'd need to parse the CMake
>> module too.
>> 
>> Is the CMake module the way to go for external project, or am I missing
>> something?
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> 
>> Bas
>> 
>> [1]
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2013-September/075296.html
>> [2]
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2013-September/013654.html
>> [3]
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-grass/mapserver.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/cmake-mapserver-export.patch;h=2d3bf6c48c8a9da05c7f74e2cf68c4799cc3cd82;hb=HEAD
>> [4]
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-grass/mapcache.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/cmake-mapserver-include.patch;h=ee74f020fe3bea7360abb34392d8197d91932f51;hb=HEAD
>> 
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