[mapserver-users] Getting mapserver running on Mac OS X

[Alex Rice]

On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 07:39  AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> I am... have been running it on my iBook with 10.1.x for a while now.
>
> I made a basic compile with Perl Mapscript, and the very basic GD, 
> jpeg, png, etc. Works quite well. I can also use Perl::DBI with MySQL 
> to bring information from non-spatial database.

Great! I'm glad. I just got it to compile.

> I know folks swear by fink, but I had some problem with fink at one 
> time, so I kinda let it go. There are very nice and clear instructions 
> by Scott Anguish on stepwise.com on how to install GD, and the other 
> graphics libs. No problem at all.

OK, thanks. I don't like to depend on Fink either. I get carried away 
and start installing XEmacs and all these heavyweight packages ;-)

> Once all that is done, Mapserver compiles without any problem except 
> one... you might get the double 'cc' in the configure script that might 
> have to be edited. That also is well documented in the archives.
>
> If you want, I can separately mail you a working Mapserver binary that 
> works on other machines quite well (I tried it on my daughter's iMac 
> and it worked right off the bat).
>
Thanks for the offer. I'll let you know if I need it. It looks like not.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alex_rice at arc.to
alrice at swcp.com