[Mapserver-users] Building MapServer for Max OS X (10.3)

[William K]

I've been using MS (no, not M$ ^_^) on OSX for a while.  Currently MS 
4.2, MOSX 10.3.4.  It's now a lot simpler than Wheaton's instructions 
(same dependencies, but less patching).  I agree with Kenichi to avoid 
Fink mostly.  Some of the basic stuff can be used (graphics libs), but 
the important parts can be problematic with Fink.

Anyways, the biggest problem is GDAL.  GDAL + libgrass, that is.  This 
is needed to use GRASS raster data directly.  You can build GDAL with 
libgrass just fine, but then I've never been able to build GRASS itself 
with a GDAL+libgrass.  What I do is build a static GDAL+libgrass 
outside the normal library paths, just to use for MS, and a 'normal' 
GDAL to be used with GRASS.  Another problem then is that the last GDAL 
I was able to build static + libgrass was 1.1.9.  The upshot is that if 
you don't need to use GRASS rasters with MS, it's easy, otherwise it's 
a headache.

I've been meaning to add a MapServer building page to go along with my 
GRASS page.  Much of the GRASS stuff applies to MS also, so you can 
take a look if you like:

<http://webpages.charter.net/kyngchaos/macosx/index.html>

Of interest to MS are the graphics libs, proj, geotiff and GDAL.  
Additional requirements would be GD, PHP, PostGIS.

I'll see what I can do about adding MapServer stuff this week.


On Jul 6, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Bill Stephenson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm going to be trying to build MapServer on a Mac OS X (10.3) box and 
> found these instructions (for 10.2) after searching the list:
>
> 	http://home.nc.rr.com/wwheaton/
>
> I'm going to try and build this with the latest stable releases of the 
> libraries mentioned in the instructions above but I'm wondering if 
> anyone here might have done this already on 10.3 and if they might 
> offer any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Stephenson
>
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