[mapserver-users] Please help with Python Mapscript module

[Lowell Filak]

Here are some links I found that may point you towards an answer or someone with an answer, however I can not answer your question directly.
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/wilma/mapserver-users/0006/msg00135.html
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/wilma/mapserver-users/0108/msg00280.html
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by Ben Logan <ben at wblogan.net> on Wed, 10 Apr 2002 05:59:34 -0400.

> Perhaps no-one saw my last posts?  Or does no-one know what to do?
> 
> I'm trying to get the Python Mapscript module to compile/link.  I have
> run the following commands:
> 
> gcc -c mapscript_wrap.c -I/usr/include/python1.5 -o mapscriptcmodule.o
> 
> ld -o mapscriptcmodule.so mapscriptcmodule.o -shared ../../libmap.a /usr/local/lib/libproj.a /usr/local/lib/libgdal.1.1.so
> 
> and then when I tried to import the mapscript module, Python gave this
> message:
> 
> Python 1.5.2 (#1, Mar  3 2001, 01:35:43)  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
> Linux 7.1                                
> 2 on linux-i386
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> import mapscript
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "mapscript.py", line 2, in ?
>     import mapscriptc
> ImportError: (Èd at R6/lib/libX11.so.6: shared object not open
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong, or is the Python module just
> broken?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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