[Mapserver-users] fail to use mapserver 4.0 demo

[Ziying Sherwin]

Thanks for the help. It worked. 

However, it created lots of image files under the directory specified by
map_web_imagepath variable. Does mapserver have any mechanism to clean up
those files periodically? Or do we have to do that on our own?

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Patrick J Barabe wrote:

> I think this has to do with the lack of a GIF licence (my best guess).
> 
> I resolved this problem by converting all the GIF images in the demo to
> PNG format, then altering the .map file accordingly.
> 
> hope that helps,
> patrick barabe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ziying Sherwin wrote:
> 
> >
> > Dear Mapserver Gurus,
> >
> > We have been trying to build mapserver 4.0 from source on a SPARC computer
> > under Solaris 2.8, using gcc 3.3, and would deeply appreciate your advice
> > about a problem we have been having.  First, the details of our installation.
> > We are compiling it with the following adjunct libraries:
> >
> >    curl 7.10.5
> >    freetype 2.1.4
> >    gd 2.0.15
> >    gdal 1.1.8
> >    jpeg 6b
> >    libgeotiff 1.2.1
> >    libiconv 1.8
> >    libpng
> >    pdflib 5.0.1
> >    proj.4 4.4.7
> >    tiff 3.6.0b2
> >    xpm
> >    zlib 1.1.4
> >
> > We configured it as follows:
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=/depot/package/mapserver_4.0/vendor \
> >             --with-jpeg=/depot/package/jpeg_6b \
> >             --with-gd=/depot/package/gd_2.0.15 \
> >             --with-freetype=/depot/package/freeptype_2.1.4/bin \
> >             --with-zlib=/depot/package/zlib_1.1.4 \
> >             --with-png=/depot/package/libpng_1.2.5 \
> >             --with-xpm=/depot/package/xpm_3.4k \
> >             --with-pdf=/depot/package/pdflib_5.0.1 \
> >             --with-tiff=/depot/package/tiff_3.6.0b2 \
> >             --with-proj=/depot/package/proj_4.4.7/vendor \
> >             --with-gdal=/depot/package/gdal_1.1.8/vendor/bin/gdal-config \
> >             --with-curl-config=/depot/package/curl_7.10.5/vendor/bin/curl-config \
> >             --enable-ignore-missing-data \
> >             --enable-runpath
> >
> > After compiling the package, we installed the binary "mapserv" into our
> > Apache cgi-bin directory.  We then installed the itasca3.5 demo into the
> > htdocs directory and edited the file "demo_init.html" to refer to the
> > correct directories.  When we tried to test the installation by visiting
> > the URL:
> >
> >    http://etg.nlm.nih.gov/service/mapserver/demo_init.html
> >
> > We saw a document containing the following message:
> >
> >    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >    |                       MapServer Demo Interface                          |
> >    |                                                                         |
> >    | Click on the initialize button to fire up the demo with 3 layers turned |
> >    | on will be accessible for browsing. The data are of Itasca County, MN   |
> >    | and were derived, for the most part, from USGS 1:24,000 quadrangles.    |
> >    | Some things to note are:                                                |
> >    |                                                                         |
> >    |                             Initialize                                  |
> >    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > After pressing the "Initialize" button, we observed the following error
> > messages:
> >
> >    msLoadMap(): General error message. Undefined overlay symbol "symbols/ctyhwy.gif" in class 0, style 0 of layer ctyrdln3_anno.
> >    msAddImageSymbol(): General error message. Unable to load GIF symbol.
> >    msInitGDALOutputFormat(): General error message. GDAL `GTiff' driver does not support output.
> >
> > We are baffled here.  Can you help explain the meaning of these messages,
> > and guide us in getting the installation working properly?
> >
> > Our sincere thanks in advance for any helpful remarks!
> >
> > Ziying Sherwin (sherwin at nlm.nih.gov)
> > RPC Rodgers (rodgers at nlm.nih.gov)
> >
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