[mapserver-users] PythonMapscript Installation under Windows

[Norman Vine]

Schuster writes:
>
> I tried to compile pythonMapscript (MS 3.6.2) under Windows 2000 with
Python
>
> 2.1.3, SWIG 1.3.15 and MSVC7 compiler, using Norman Vine's setup.py
script.
> I tried to modified it to reflect windows requirements concerning
directories
> and
>
> libraries.
> When I run the setup, there is a problem when building the MapScriptc
> extension.
> I get the following error (translated from german):
>
> mapscript_wrap.obj: error LNK2001: unresolved external Symbol
initMapscriptc
> build\temp.win32-2.1\Release\MapScriptc.lib: fatal error LNK 1120: 1
unresolved

Try changing your setup.py lines

## from ##

# make package directory and package __init__ script
mkpath("mapscript")
init_file=open(path.join("mapscript","__init__.py"),"w")
init_file.write("from MapScript import *\n")
init_file.close()

## to ##

# make package directory and package __init__ script
mkpath("mapscript")
init_file=open(path.join("mapscript","__init__.py"),"w")
init_file.write("from _mapscript import *\n")
init_file.close()

##  AND from ##

     # Description of the modules and packages in the distribution
       packages = ['mapscript'],
       ext_modules =
           [Extension('MapScriptc', ['mapscript_wrap.c'],

## to ##

       # Description of the modules and packages in the distribution
       packages = ['mapscript'],
       ext_modules = [
           Extension('_mapscript', ['mapscript_wrap.c'],


This is due to naming conventions change recent swig distributions

Please let us know if this works !

Norman