Quick howto for compiling and running C# Mapscript (Linux)

[Sean Gillies]

On Jan 4, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Abe Gillespie wrote:

> Prerequisites:
> 1.  An installed Mono
> 2.  A configured MapServer source tree
>
> In the source tree you'll find \mapscript\csharp\Makefile; open it.
> Two directories above that you'll see a file named mapscriptvars; open
> it.  From the mapscriptvars file you'll need to copy the CCFLAGS and
> LDFLAGS values to Makefile.  *Note - in mapscriptvars you won't see
> "CCFLAGS=blah" or "LDFLAGS=blah" but the lines look something like:
>
> -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA -DNEED_STRLCAT -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_TIFF -DUSE_GD_GIF
> -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG -DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT
> -DGD_HAS_GDIMAGEGIFPTR -DGD_HAS_GETBITMAPFONTS -DUSE_OGR -DUSE_GDAL
>
> and
>
> -L. -lmap -L/usr/src/gd-2.0.33/.libs -lgd -L/usr/src/jpeg-6b -ljpeg
> -lfreetype -L/usr/src/libpng-1.2.5 -lpng -L/usr/src/zlib-1.2.1 -lz
> -L/usr/src/tiff-v3.6.1/lib64 -ltiff -L/usr/src/jpeg-6b -ljpeg
> -lfreetype -L/usr/src/libpng-1.2.5 -lpng -L/usr/src/zlib-1.2.1 -lz
> -L/usr/src/jpeg-6b -ljpeg -L/usr/local/lib -lgdal -lc -lm
>
> One thing I didn't have to do was copy over the include directories ...
> so, if it works for you, ignore the line that looks something like:
>
> -I. -I/usr/src/gd-2.0.33 -I/usr/src/tiff-v3.6.1/libtiff
> -I/usr/src/jpeg-6b -I/usr/local/include
>
> Ultimately your Makefile should look something like this:
>
> .
> .
> .
> CCFLAGS=-DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA -DNEED_STRLCAT -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_TIFF
> -DUSE_GD_GIF -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG -DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT
> -DGD_HAS_GDIMAGEGIFPTR -DGD_HAS_GETBITMAPFONTS -DUSE_OGR -DUSE_GDAL
>
> LDFLAGS=-L../.. -lmap -L/usr/src/gd-2.0.33/.libs -lgd
> -L/usr/src/jpeg-6b -ljpeg -lfreetype -L/usr/src/libpng-1.2.5 -lpng
> -L/usr/src/zlib-1.2.1 -lz -L/usr/src/tiff-v3.6.1/lib64 -ltiff
> -L/usr/src/jpeg-6b -ljpeg -lfreetype -L/usr/src/libpng-1.2.5 -lpng
> -L/usr/src/zlib-1.2.1 -lz -L/usr/src/jpeg-6b -ljpeg -L/usr/local/lib
> -lgdal -lc -lm
> .
> .
> .
>
> Now run make.  If all went well you should have libmapscript.so and
> mapscript_csharp.dll.  You can run a .Net exe (check the examples
> directory) if you have these two files in the same directory.  If you
> want them globally accessible copy mapscript_csharp.dll into the
> mono/1.0 directory.  On my system it lives at /usr/local/lib/mono/1.0
> Then you'll want to add a mapping to the mono/config file (make sure
> you've put libmapscript.so in a useful place before doing so).  On my
> system it lives at /usr/local/etc/mono  Add a line that looks something
> like:
>
> <dllmap dll="libmapscript" target="/usr/local/lib/libmapscript.so" />
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Has anyone had success doing this on Windows?
>
> -Abe
>
>

Abe,

How are you going to use C# mapscript?  As a CGI?  mod_mono?  ASP.NET?
As the mapscript maintainer I am very interested in how well it works
or doesn't work in these environments.

One day soon we'll have a place where you can publish this kind of
howto.  Meanwhile, take good notes.

cheers,
Sean

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