Flash vs. MapScript support

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Hi There,

 You should use the 0.2a version. That is the version that is known to work.

later,

Mike Leahy wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>I'm putting this question forth again to see if it will catch anyone's
>eye the second time around.  Basically, as described below, if I compile
>MapServer on Linux with flash support, something happens to the
>php_mapscript.so that prevents it from being loaded by PHP.  Would
>anyone have any ideas of what I should look for to work around this?
>
>Regards,
>Mike
>
>Mike Leahy wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello list,
>>
>>I'm currently trying to get Mapserver 4.8.0-beta2 running with flash
>>support.  I can get ming-0.3cvs complied and installed - the php_ming.so
>>will load fine in a test php script I have.  However, if I compile
>>MapServer with ming-0.3, I get a long list of warnings much like the
>>following:
>>
>>mapswf.c:3012: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘SWFMovie_add’ from
>>incompatible pointer type
>>
>>With ming-0.3beta1, this would then crash, but the cvs continues and
>>compiles fine (I also added MING_ENABLED="-DUSE_MING_FLASH
>>-DMING_VERSION_03" in configure.in - I'm not sure if that had any
>>impact, as I don't remember exactly when I did it).
>>
>>Finally, when I put the new php_mapscript.so in my php/modules folder, I
>>find that I am unable to load the module in php.
>>
>>
>>If I repeat the whole process, and remove '--with-ming' from the
>>mapserver ./configure command, the whole thing compiles fine, and
>>php_mapscript.so loads fine.  What is it about ming/swf support that
>>could break mapscript?  Am I okay to compile the CGI executables with
>>SWF support, then recompile everything without swf and just use the php
>>module with the swf-enabled executables?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help,
>>Mike
>>
>>    
>>


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